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ArticleMedicine, health care, and philosophy2006

Genetic tools, Kuhnean theoretical shift and the geneticization process.

Juan Manuel Torres

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Juan Manuel TorresFundaçao para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Centro de Filosofia da Ciência, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, PT. jmvtorres@yahoo.com

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The growing use of genetic tests in medical practice has a strong influence on some widespread notions of health and unhealth. Two consequences of this phenomenon are: (i) important changes in the meaning of these current notions and, therefore, (ii) the arrival of a new taxonomy or rearrangement for the so-called "health-concepts". This paper attempts to demonstrate that both facts fuel a theoretical change that might be considered a model of scientific Kuhnean change in a fundamental aspect. On the other hand, this theoretical shift process offers the basis for approaching a present-day controversy, i.e. whether Western society is going through a period of geneticization or not, from a new perspective.

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Attitude to HealthGenetic TestingSocial ChangeHealthHumansPhilosophy, MedicalPsychological TheorySocial ValuesWestern World

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