A New Approach to Disease, Risk, and Boundaries Based on Emergent Probability

Author:

Daly Patrick1

Affiliation:

1. Lonergan Institute at Boston College , Boston, Massachusetts , USA

Abstract

AbstractThe status of risk factors and disease remains a disputed question in the theory and practice of medicine and healthcare, and so does the related question of delineating disease boundaries. I present a framework based on Bernard Lonergan’s account of emergent probability for differentiating (1) generically distinct levels of systematic function within organisms and between organisms and their environments and (2) the methods of functional, genetic, and statistical investigation. I then argue on this basis that it is possible to understand disease in terms of biological or higher intra-level dysfunction, risk factors—including genetic risk factors—in terms of statistical inter-level conditioning of a given stage or developmental sequence of systematic functioning, and the empirical boundaries of disease in terms of the limits of both functional categorization (from an epistemic standpoint) and upper-level integration of lower-level processes and events (from an ontological standpoint).

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Philosophy,General Medicine,Issues, ethics and legal aspects

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