John, Stephen (2022) Death Sentences: Criminalization, Medicalization, and the Nature of Disease. Philosophy of Medicine, 3 (1). pp. 1-17. ISSN 2692-3963
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Abstract
There are many analogies between medical and judicial practice. This article explores one such analogy, between “medicalization” and “criminalization.” Specifically, drawing on an analogy between a judge’s speech act of delivering a verdict and a physician’s speech act of giving a diagnosis, it suggests a novel account of the phenomenon of “overdiagnosis.” Using this approach, we can make some headway in understanding debates over the early detection of cancer. The final section outlines the relationship between this approach and familiar debates in philosophy of medicine on the nature of disease and in philosophy of science on the “value-free ideal.”
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| Keywords: | Cancer Overdiagnosis Nature of disease Medicalisation Definition of disease Speech act theory Values in science | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease | ||||||
| Depositing User: | Professor Alex Broadbent | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 26 Sep 2022 19:13 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2022 19:13 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 21207 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy of Medicine | ||||||
| Publisher: | University Library System, University of Pittsburgh | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/article/view/48 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.5195/pom.2022.48 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Medicine > Health and Disease | ||||||
| Date: | 27 April 2022 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-17 | ||||||
| Volume: | 3 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2692-3963 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21207 |
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