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Comments on Larsen’s ‘Disease from a Historical and Social Point of View’

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Health, Disease, and Causal Explanations in Medicine

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Dr Larsen points out and discusses several conceptual and nosological problems of importance to public health planning, and specially preventive medicine. I can only comment here upon a very limited part of this analysis.

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  1. Larsen, Ø.: 1984, ‘Disease from a Historical and Social Point of View: Some [2] Remarks Based on the Needs of Preventive Medicine’, in this volume, pp. 153–164.

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  2. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English: 1972, 5th Edition (1964), Oxford University Press, Oxford.

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Ingemar, B., Lindahl, B. (1984). Comments on Larsen’s ‘Disease from a Historical and Social Point of View’. 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_18

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