?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Concept+of+disease+as+an+ontological+device+to+shape+human+existence&rft.creator=Soosaar%2C+Andres&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=Disease+and+health+are+conceptual+cornerstones+of+the+framework+of+all+medicine.+In+different+times+these+concepts+have+had+different+contents%2C+but+in+all+times+their+role+has+also+been+to+express+some+status+of+personal+human+existence+and+shape+its+general+and+particular+forms+of+individual+and+collective+forms+through+different+wanted+or+avoided+scenarios+of+human+behavior.+A+long+term+solo+of+biological+reductionism+has+strengthened+the+concept+of+disease+as+a+tool+to+differentiate+normal+and+abnormal+structure+and+behavior+of+human+beings.+Current+symbiosis+of+biological+reductionism+with+the+trend+of+stronger+social+regulation+can+rewrite+the+content+of+the+concept+of+disease+in+direction+to+increase+of+external+determinism+of+personal+human+existence.+Philosophical+analysis+of+the+concept+of+disease+can+support+coherence+in+the+heterogeneous+ideological+framework+of+medicine+and+help+to+bind+technical+side+of+medicine+with+appropriate+values.%0A&rft.date=2007-03&rft.type=Other&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5650%2F1%2Fconcept%2520of%2520disease.htm&rft.identifier=++Soosaar%2C+Andres++(2007)+Concept+of+disease+as+an+ontological+device+to+shape+human+existence.+++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5650%2F