WebDrawing on Christopher Boorse's Biostatistical Theory (BST), Norman Daniels contends that a genuine health need is one which is necessary to restore normal functioning - a supposedly objective notion which he believes can be read from the natural world without reference to potentially controversial normative categories. WebMoved Permanently. Redirecting to /professor/107

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WebChristopher Boorse 1 Affiliation 1 University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA [email protected]. PMID: 25398760 DOI: 10.1093/jmp/jhu035 Abstract This essay replies to critics since 1995 of my "biostatistical theory" (BST) of health. According to the BST, a pathological condition is a state of statistically species-subnormal biological part ... WebApr 25, 2016 · In a series of papers published in the 1970s, Christopher Boorse proposed a naturalist theory of health, mainly based on a value-free concept of ‘biological function’, a concept of ‘reference class’ and the notion of ‘statistical normality’. His theory has profoundly shaped the philosophical debates on the concepts of health and disease. lutti esposti albiate

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WebPhilosophical discussions of health and disease have traditionally been dominated by a … WebThis paper examines the most influential naturalist theory of health, Christopher Boorse's 'biostatistical theory' (BST). I argue that the BST is an unsuitable candidate for the rôle that Boorse has cast it to play, namely, to underpin medicine with a theoretical, value-free science of health and disease. WebCHRISTOPHER BOORSEt University of Delaware This paper argues that the medical … lutti del corpo di base