• Order to parcel locker

    Order to parcel locker
  • easy pay

    easy pay
  • Reduced price
Explaining Cancer

Explaining Cancer

Finding Order in Disorder

9780197642504
155.92 zł
140.33 zł Save 15.59 zł Tax included
Lowest price within 30 days before promotion: 140.33 zł
Quantity
Available in 4-6 weeks

  Delivery policy

Choose Paczkomat Inpost, Orlen Paczka, DPD or Poczta Polska. Click for more details

  Security policy

Pay with a quick bank transfer, payment card or cash on delivery. Click for more details

  Return policy

If you are a consumer, you can return the goods within 14 days. Click for more details

Description
In Explaining Cancer, Anya Plutynski addresses a variety of philosophical questions that arise in the context of cancer science and medicine. She begins with the following concerns::· How do scientists classify cancer? Do these classifications reflect natures joints? · How do cancer scientists identify and classify early stage cancers? · What does it mean to say that cancer is a genetic disease? What role do genes play in mechanisms for cancer? · What are the most important environmental causes of cancer, and how do epidemiologists investigate these causes? · How exactly has our evolutionary history made us vulnerable to cancer? Explaining Cancer uses these questions as an entree into a family of philosophical debates. It uses case studies of scientific practice to reframe philosophical debates about natural classification in science and medicine, the problem of drawing the line between disease and health, mechanistic reasoning in science, pragmatics and evidence, the roles of models and modeling in science, and the nature of scientific explanation.
Product Details
OUP USA
93514
9780197642504
9780197642504

Data sheet

Publication date
2022
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
280
Dimensions (mm)
156 x 235
Weight (g)
404
  • Introduction; Chapter 1:: Cancer:: Natural, Social and Medical Kind; Chapter 2:: From Disease to Risk; Chapter 3:: Causation, Causal Selection and Causal Parity; Chapter 4:: Evidence and Environmental Epidemiology:: A Pragmatic Approach; Chapter 5:: Explaining Cancer from an Evolutionary Perspective; Chapter 6:: Explanation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index;
Comments (0)