Glackin, Shane N. (2025) Externalist Medicine and Externalist Biology. Philosophy of Medicine, 6 (1). pp. 1-13. ISSN 2692-3963
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This paper assesses the prospects for an externalist perspective for somatic medicine—the view that health and disease of the body might sometimes be constitutively dependent on factors external to the organism. After briefly reviewing the grounds for psychiatric externalism, I argue that similar considerations are already implicit in somatic medical practice, particularly in immunology, public/population health, and occupational therapy. I then argue that the interactionist and population-minded externalist approach to biomedicine represents an important practical application of more general trends in biological theory; namely, the growing rejection of individualistic and reductionistic thinking.
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| Keywords: | Disease, Externalism, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Degeneracy | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease Specific Sciences > Medicine |
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| Depositing User: | Professor Alex Broadbent | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2025 12:53 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 18 Aug 2025 12:53 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 26254 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy of Medicine | ||||||
| Publisher: | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/article/view/237 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.5195/pom.2025.237 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease Specific Sciences > Medicine |
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| Date: | 15 August 2025 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-13 | ||||||
| Volume: | 6 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2692-3963 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/26254 |
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