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On 17/01/2012 15:17, Stefano Vaj wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">2012/1/17 Anders Sandberg <span
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">I think a lot of it goes
back to Boorse's "On the Distinction between Disease and
Illness" in 1975<br clear="all">
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My confusion may be more linguistic than philosophic, but in
Italian and French they both translate as "malattia", "maladie"...
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Yes, and normal people (and the NIH) of course say they are the same
thing. But the fine distinction can be used to denote for example
the subjective perception: an ill person experiences an unhealthy,
distressing state while a diseased person has a pathology.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/j81081714nkm6117/">http://www.springerlink.com/content/j81081714nkm6117/</a><br>
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For a great overview of just how tricky the concept "disease" is,
see Freitas' Nanomedicine: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nanomedicine.com/NMI/1.2.2.htm">http://www.nanomedicine.com/NMI/1.2.2.htm</a><br>
(and his list is definitively not complete - there are several
shelves in our office with just medical ethics books dealing with
this)<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Anders Sandberg,
Future of Humanity Institute
Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University </pre>
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