Dammann, Olaf (2016) Causality, mosaics, and the health sciences. Theoretical medicine and bioethics, 37 (2). pp. 161-8. ISSN 1573-0980

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Abstract

Thinking about illness causation has a long and rich history in medicine. After a hiatus in the 1990s, the last one-and-a-half decades have seen a surge of publications on causality in the biomedical sciences. Interestingly, this surge is visible not only in the medical, epidemiological , bioinformatics, and public health literatures, but also among philosophical publications. In this essay, I review and discuss one most recent addition to the literature, "Causality: Philosophical Theory Meets Scientific Practice" (Oxford, 2014) written by philosophers Phyllis Illari and Federica Russo about causality in the sciences, and particularly about the health sciences.

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Item Type:	Published Article or Volume
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Dammann, Olaf
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation
Depositing User:	Dr. Olaf Dammann
Date Deposited:	11 Aug 2016 15:37
Last Modified:	11 Aug 2016 15:37
Item ID:	12351
Journal or Publication Title:	Theoretical medicine and bioethics
Subjects:	General Issues > Causation
Date:	April 2016
Page Range:	pp. 161-8
Volume:	37
Number:	2
ISSN:	1573-0980
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12351

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