Monsó, Susana and Saborido, Cristian (2025) Animal medicine. [Preprint]
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Abstract
The range of animal practices potentially classified as medical varies widely both functionally and mechanistically, and there is no agreed upon definition of medicine that can help determine which cases ought to count as such. In this paper, we argue that all available definitions are fatally flawed and defend our own characterisation of medicine, which incorporates both functional and mechanistic constraints. We apply our definition to the available evidence and determine which animal behaviours show a mere difference of degree with paradigmatic medical practices—and should thus be seen as medicine proper—and which should be excluded from this nomenclature.
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| Keywords: | nonhuman animals, medicine, medication, prophylaxis, animal cognition | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Medicine |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Susana Monsó | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jan 2025 17:02 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 Jan 2025 17:02 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 24656 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Medicine |
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| Date: | 30 January 2025 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24656 |
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