Establishing Medical Reality

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Normality, Disease and Enhancement

Chapter 3 Holistic Theories of Health as Applicable to Non-Human Living Beings

Chapter 4 Disease and the Concept of Supervenience

Chapter 5 Decision and Discovery in Defining ‘Disease’

Chapter 6 Race and Scientific Reduction

Chapter 7 Towards an Adequate Account of Genetic Disease

Chapter 8 Why Disease Persists: An Evolutionary Nosology

Chapter 9 Creating Mental Illness in Non-Disordered Community Populations

Chapter 10 Gender Identity Disorder

Chapter 11 Clinical Trials as Nomological Machines: Implications for Evidence-Based Medicine

Chapter 12 The Social Epistemology of NIH Consensus Conferences

Chapter 13 Maternal Agency and the Immunological Paradox of Pregnancy

Chapter 14 Violence and Public Health: Exploring the Relationship Between Biological Perspectives on Violent Behavior and Public Health Approaches to Violence Prevention

Chapter 15 Taking Equipoise Seriously: The Failure of Clinical or Community Equipoise to Resolve the Ethical Dilemmas in Randomized Clinical Trials