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Organs, organisms and disease

human ontology and medical practice

Mark W. Wartofsky

pp. 67-83

The disorders of the body and the mind are to a very large extent the consequences of inadequate responses to the environment. They involve not only a particular organ but the organism as a whole. For this reason, the practice of medicine demands of the physician a holistic attitude that goes beyond that of the experimental scientist.1

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-1769-5_5

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Wartofsky, M.W. (1975)., Organs, organisms and disease: human ontology and medical practice, in T. Engelhardt & S. Spicker (eds.), Evaluation and explanation in the biomedical sciences, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 67-83.

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