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Causality in medicine, and its relation to action, mechanisms, and probability

Donald Gillies: Causality, probability, and medicine. Abingdon: Routledge, 2018, 300pp, £29.99 E-Book

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Auker-Howlett, D., Wilde, M. Causality in medicine, and its relation to action, mechanisms, and probability. Metascience 28, 387–391 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-019-00430-0

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