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The concept of disease (which we subsume under our concept of malady) is an issue that has been weaving in and out of bioethics for a long time. There are some bioethical matters for which the concept of disease has seemed pivotal, and others in which it has seemed to play no role at all. Furthermore, not everyone agrees about when the concept is relevant and when it is not. But in any case, the concept of disease deserves an in depth explication since it is so central to medicine and as such can and does so easily surface in discussions in and around the health professions.
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The ideas expressed in this article are part of a work in progress by the authors. The work in its final form will be published as a book with the title Bioethics: A Return to Fundamentals.
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Clouser, K.D., Culver, C.M., Gert, B. (1997). Malady. In: Humber, J.M., Almeder, R.F. (eds) What Is Disease?. Biomedical Ethics Reviews. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-451-1_3
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