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The causal explanatory functions of medical diagnoses
Diagnoses in medicine are often taken to serve as explanations of patients’ symptoms and signs. This article examines how they do so. I begin by arguing that although some instances of diagnostic explanation can be formulated as covering law arguments, they are explanatory neither in virtue of their...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer Netherlands
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5325847/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27638682 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11017-016-9377-5 |