The causation of disease - the practical and ethical consequences of competing explanations.

Journal article

The prevention, treatment and management of disease are closely linked to how the causes of a particular disease are explained. For multi-factorial conditions, the causal explanations are inevitably complex and competing models may exist to explain the same condition. Selecting one particular causal explanation over another will carry practical and ethical consequences that are acutely relevant for health policy. In this paper our focus is two-fold; (i) the different models of causal explanat...

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Authors: Räisänen, U; Bekkers, M; Boddington, P; Sarangi, S; Clarke, A

• Journal: Medicine, health care, and philosophy
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 293-306
• Publication date: 2006-01-01
• DOI: 10.1007/s11019-006-9007-5
• EISSN: 1572-8633
• ISSN: 1386-7423
• Language: English
• Keywords: Coronary Artery Disease; Bioethics; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Causality; Environment; Health Behavior; Humans; Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2; Models, Theoretical; Life Style; Philosophy, Medical