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#415 Jacob Stegenga: Philosophy of Medicine, Evidence, Disease, and Medical Nihilism

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Is Type 1 Diabetes a Disease?

I've read in your work that there are several different approaches to this question of how we should classify diseases. There's, for example, naturalism, normativism, hybridism, eliminativism. Would you like to talk a little bit about each of those? Okay, sure. I'll mention it briefly. Naturalism says some condition is a disease if it involves some departure from normal biological functioning. Normativism says, diseases are conditions that are disvalued for one reason or another.

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