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Explaining Cancer : Finding Order In Disorder
Paperback Edition: 1
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 nature's "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?
Pages : 280
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Publication date : 2022-07-04
Subjects: Non-fiction, Medicine, Health And Personal Development, Medicine, Oncology