Explaining Cancer by Anya Plutynski
Finding Order in Disorder
This book examines how scientists, clinicians and philosophers make sense of cancer by unpacking different kinds of explanations—mechanistic, statistical, environmental and social—and how they are used to identify causes, assign risk, guide prevention and shape policy. It argues that cancer cannot be reduced to a single kind of cause or explanation, and shows through case studies and conceptual analysis how population-level patterns, molecular mechanisms, and value judgments interact in explanations and evidence. The author highlights practical and ethical consequences of explanatory choices, from research priorities to public health messaging, and calls for pluralistic, context-sensitive approaches to understanding and addressing cancer.
- Published
- 2010
- Nationality
- American
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- Original Language
- English
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