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Most medical research workers take it for granted that it is one of the main purposes of medical research to explore the causes of different diseases. This is certainly true, but at the same time the statement is not quite as simple as it sounds.
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Wulff, H.R. (1984). The Causal Basis of the Current Disease Classification. In: Nordenfelt, L., Lindahl, B.I.B. (eds) Health, Disease, and Causal Explanations in Medicine. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6283-5_19
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