Medical Disorder Is Not a Black Box Essentialist Concept

Review of Defining Mental Disorder: Jerome Wakefield and His Critics, edited by Luc Faucher and Denis Forest

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https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2023.165

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Concepts of health and disease, conceptual analysis, philosophy of psychiatry

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2023-07-31

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Fagerberg, H. (2023). Medical Disorder Is Not a Black Box Essentialist Concept : Review of Defining Mental Disorder: Jerome Wakefield and His Critics, edited by Luc Faucher and Denis Forest. Philosophy of Medicine, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.5195/pom.2023.165

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