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11035543

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-11-27
pubmed:abstractText
This study examines the ends of medical intervention and argues that mainstream contemporary medicine assumes that appropriate ends may be discovered (i.e., naturalism), rather than created or decided upon (i.e., conventionalism). The essay then applies these considerations to the problem of the demarcation of the normal from the pathological. I argue that the common formulations of this dispute commit a fallacy, as they characterize the "normal" as a state of the organism and not as an ongoing process within it. Such a process may be characterized as self-creation and self-repair. Such considerations support the conclusion that normality may be regarded as a regulative idea, rather than as an end-state, and as part of the ends of medical intervention, depending upon choice and context.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:keyword
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
E
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0360-5310
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
569-80
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
The ends of medical intervention and the demarcation of the normal from the pathological.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article