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Schwartz, P.H. (2007). Decision and Discovery in Defining ‘Disease’. In: Kincaid, H., McKitrick, J. (eds) Establishing Medical Reality. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 90. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5216-2_5
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