This book engages several philosophical questions about cancer: What is cancer? Is it one or many? How do cell and molecular biologists, epidemiologists and evolutionary biologists think about and explain cancer?
This book engages several philosophical questions about cancer: What is cancer? Is it one or many? How do cell and molecular biologists, epidemiologists and evolutionary biologists think about and explain cancer?
Anya Plutynski received her Ph.D. in Philosophy, and her M.A. in Biology, both from the University of Pennsylvania. She currently teaches philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * 1. Opening * 2. Plan of Organization * 3. Autobiographical Prelude * Chapter 1: Cancer: Natural, Social and Medical Kind * 1. Introduction * 2. Cancer Classification in Practice * 3. Natural Kinds and Disease Kinds * 4. Is Cancer a Homeostatic Property Cluster Kind? A Potted History and * Discussion * 5. Taking a Pragmatic Turn * 6. Conclusion * Chapter 2: From Disease to Risk * 1. Introduction * 2. Concerning Definition * 3. Naturalism: Disease as Dysfunction * 7. Problematizing Functiom * 8. Objections to the Naturalist View * 9. The Eliminativist View * 10. From Disease to Risk * Chapter 3: Causation, Causal Selection and Causal Parity * 1. Introduction: On Genes as Causes * 2. Putting Concepts of Causation in their Proper Place * 3. The Mechanistic Research Program in Cancer * 4. Causal Selection, Causal Parity, and Genetic Disease * 5. Conclusion * Chapter 4: Evidence and Environmental Epidemiology: A Pragmatic Approach * 1. Introduction * 2. Epidemiology: An Overview * 3. Tobacco * 4. Ionizing Radiation: The Downwinders * 5. Summary Discussion * Chapter 5: Explaining Cancer from an Evolutionary Perspective * 1. Evolutionary Thinking about Disease: A Taxonomy * 2. Cancer Evolving * 3. Modeling and Reality * 4. Evolution, Modeling, and Hypothetical Explanation * Chapter 6: Explanation * 1. Introduction * 2. Summary Discussion * Conclusion * Bibliography * Index
* Introduction * 1. Opening * 2. Plan of Organization * 3. Autobiographical Prelude * Chapter 1: Cancer: Natural, Social and Medical Kind * 1. Introduction * 2. Cancer Classification in Practice * 3. Natural Kinds and Disease Kinds * 4. Is Cancer a Homeostatic Property Cluster Kind? A Potted History and * Discussion * 5. Taking a Pragmatic Turn * 6. Conclusion * Chapter 2: From Disease to Risk * 1. Introduction * 2. Concerning Definition * 3. Naturalism: Disease as Dysfunction * 7. Problematizing Functiom * 8. Objections to the Naturalist View * 9. The Eliminativist View * 10. From Disease to Risk * Chapter 3: Causation, Causal Selection and Causal Parity * 1. Introduction: On Genes as Causes * 2. Putting Concepts of Causation in their Proper Place * 3. The Mechanistic Research Program in Cancer * 4. Causal Selection, Causal Parity, and Genetic Disease * 5. Conclusion * Chapter 4: Evidence and Environmental Epidemiology: A Pragmatic Approach * 1. Introduction * 2. Epidemiology: An Overview * 3. Tobacco * 4. Ionizing Radiation: The Downwinders * 5. Summary Discussion * Chapter 5: Explaining Cancer from an Evolutionary Perspective * 1. Evolutionary Thinking about Disease: A Taxonomy * 2. Cancer Evolving * 3. Modeling and Reality * 4. Evolution, Modeling, and Hypothetical Explanation * Chapter 6: Explanation * 1. Introduction * 2. Summary Discussion * Conclusion * Bibliography * Index
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