Volume 38, Issue 4 | Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

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Volume 38, Issue 4

August 2017

Special Issue: Understanding Disease and Illness

Issue Editors:

Jeremy R. Simon,
Havi Carel,
Alexander Bird

8 articles in this issue

Understanding disease and illness
Jeremy R. Simon
Havi Carel
Alexander Bird
EditorialNotes 13 July 2017 Pages: 239 - 244
Re-evaluating concepts of biological function in clinical medicine: towards a new naturalistic theory of disease
Benjamin Chin-Yee
Ross E. G. Upshur
OriginalPaper 28 June 2017 Pages: 245 - 264
The muddle of medicalization: pathologizing or medicalizing?
Jonathan Sholl
OriginalPaper 04 July 2017 Pages: 265 - 278
Symptom modelling can be influenced by psychiatric categories: choices for research domain criteria (RDoC)
Sam Fellowes
OriginalPaper Open access 10 July 2017 Pages: 279 - 294
Where’s the problem? Considering Laing and Esterson’s account of schizophrenia, social models of disability, and extended mental disorder
Rachel Cooper
OriginalPaper Open access 05 July 2017 Pages: 295 - 305
Diagnosis, narrative identity, and asymptomatic disease
Mary Jean Walker
Wendy A. Rogers
OriginalPaper 05 July 2017 Pages: 307 - 321
Exemplars, ethics, and illness narratives
Ian James Kidd
OriginalPaper 13 July 2017 Pages: 323 - 334
Evaluating the UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee’s position on the implausible effectiveness of homeopathic treatments
Andrew Turner
OriginalPaper Open access 04 July 2017 Pages: 335 - 352