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From the many intriguing and important ideas Professor Engelhardt presents in his excellent paper, I shall choose to comment on only the following four: (1) ontological and anti-ontological views on disease; (2) value-ladenness of pathology and nosology; (3) the concept of clinical problems as a substitute for the traditional concept of disease; (4) clinical medicine as an applied science.
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Cf. my ‘Krankheitsbegriffe und nosologische Systeme’, Metamed 1 (1977), 4–41.
In the present context, an elaborate explication of the notion of value-ladenness is not necessary. It suffices to define it as ‘viewed as beneficial od risky’. For a more comprehensive account, see my ‘Normative Systems and Medical Mataethics. Part 1: Value Kinematics, Health, and Disease’, Metamedicine 2 (1981), 75–119.
See my concept of ‘differential praxiognosis’ in my ‘Foundations of Clinical Praxiology. Part 1: The Relativity of Medical Diagnosis’ Metamedicine 2 (1981), 183–196. A more elaborate discussion of these two points may be found in my ‘Medicine as Ethics and Constructive Utopia. Part 1’ (in German), Medizin, Ethik & Philosophie 1 (1983), 1–18;.
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Sadegh-Zadeh, K. (1984). Comments on Engelhardt’s ‘Clinical Problems and the Concept of Disease’. In: Nordenfelt, L., Lindahl, B.I.B. (eds) Health, Disease, and Causal Explanations in Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6283-5_6
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