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Mechanisms in medicine
In Miriam Solomon, Jeremy Simon & Harold Kincaid, The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine. New York, NY: Routledge (2016)
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Explanation: a mechanist alternative.William Bechtel & Adele Abrahamsen - 2005 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36 (2):421-441.
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