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Philosophy of Molecular Medicine
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ABSTRACT
Philosophy of Molecular Medicine: Foundational Issues in Theory and Practice aims at a systematic investigation of a number of foundational issues in the field of molecular medicine. The volume is organized around four broad modules focusing, respectively, on the following key aspects: What are the nature, scope, and limits of molecular medicine? How does it provide explanations? How does it represent and model phenomena of interest? How does it infer new knowledge from data and experiments? The essays collected here, authored by prominent scientists and philosophers of science, focus on a handful of mainstream topics in the philosophical literature, such as causation, explanation, modeling, and scientific inference. These previously unpublished contributions shed new light on these traditional topics by integrating them with problems, methods, and results from three prominent areas of contemporary biomedical science: basic research, translational and clinical research, and clinical practice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Nature, Origins, and Scope
chapter 2|22 pages
Personalized Medicine: Historical Roots of a Medical Model
chapter 3|22 pages
From the Concept of Genetic Disease to the Geneticization of Diseases: Analyzing and Solving the Paradox of MARIE DARRASON
part |2 pages
Part II Explanation
chapter 4|19 pages
Molecular Complexity: Why Has Psychiatry Not Been Revolutionized by Genomics (Yet)?
chapter 5|22 pages
How Cancer Spreads: Reconceptualizing a Disease
part |2 pages
Part III Representation and Modeling
chapter 7|18 pages
Toward a Notion of Intervention in Big-Data Biology and Molecular Medicine
chapter 8|27 pages
Pathways to the Clinic: Cancer Stem Cells and Challenges for Translational Research
part |2 pages
Part IV Inference