PART I: GENERAL CONCEPTSThe concept of disease (Dominic Sisti and Arthur Caplan)Disease, illness, and sickness (Bjorn Hofmann)Health and wellbeing (Daniel Hausman)Disability and normality (Anita Silvers)Mechanisms in medicine (Phyllis Illari)Causality and causal inference in medicine (Julian Reiss)Frequency and propensity: The interpretation of probability in causal models for medicine (Donald Gillies)Reductionism in the biomedical sciences (Holly Andersen)Realism and constructivism in… [read post]

Historically, one of the most important interpretation of utility is associated with the great English philosopher and legal theorist Jeremy Bentham. [read post]