biomedical concepts and the concept of biological state

Biomedical Concepts AndBiomedical Concepts AndThe Concept Of Biological StateThe Concept Of Biological State

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Biomedical Concepts AndThe Concept Of Biological State

Stephen Lewis

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Theories of Meaning

• de facto

• de jure

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Molecules

Organism

Systems

Organs

Tissues

Cells

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Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall,

All the King's horses and all the King's men,

Just couldn't put Humpty together again.

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• Well-being• Illness• Lesion• Pathological / Pathology• Disease• Injury• Health

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• Well-being / Illness – are experiential states represented on the vertical axis.

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• Lesions – can be understood as bodily configurations which increase organismal entropy.

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• Pathological Lesions – are lesions that are associated with a sense of suffering.

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• Non-Pathological Lesions – are lesions that are not associated with a sense of suffering.

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• A Non-Pathological Lesion may also be a Pre-Pathological Lesion.

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• In order to call something a disease there must be two things involved:

– a pathological lesion and

– an experience of illness (or worse)

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• An injury can have the same effects as a disease, but we may not choose to call it a disease as such.

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Different Individuals

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Biomedical Concepts AndBiomedical Concepts AndThe Concept Of Biological StateThe Concept Of Biological State

For a full transcript of the presentation,for which these slides were an accompaniment,

please visit:

https://sites.google.com/site/sjlewis55/presentations/temah2