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Contents Introduction................................................................................................ 273 Science and Culture .................................................................................. 274 Darwin’s Ventriloquists ............................................................................277 Three Diseases ...........................................................................................280 Nothing-butism ......................................................................................... 281 Representing Nature .................................................................................283 An Intersection of Darwinism and Medicine .......................................284 Conclusion ..................................................................................................286 References ................................................................................................... 287
Introduction One of the things you can never escape in talking about Darwinism is that it comes in so many forms. And it is their underlying assumptions, or epistemes, that not only differentiate those forms of Darwinism from one another, but which make them interesting as bodies of knowledge. For the present context, then, which evolutionary theory should I invoke in order to make medical sense?
