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Normality and Disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Donald B. Calne  and
Joanna S. Calne
Donald B. Calne*
Affiliation:
Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, UBC Health Sciences Centre Hospital, Vancouver
Joanna S. Calne
Affiliation:
Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, UBC Health Sciences Centre Hospital, Vancouver
*
Belzberg Laboratory of Clinical Neuroscience, Department of Medicine, Division of Neurology, UBC Health Sciences Centre Hospital, 2211 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1W5
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Abstract:

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There have been trends to equate normal with an ideal state of health, and disease with disturbances that are determined solely by subclinical abnormalities. While in any living language there is a conflict between established definition and the need for change, modification in the use of words that are of such central importance to medical writing requires cogent justification that has not been forthcoming in these instances. To avoid further obscuration of the literature, the term normal should be limited to its traditional connotation of average, and the term disease should be reserved for disturbances of health that are clinically manifest.

Type
Special Features
Information
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , February 1988 , pp. 3 - 4
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1988

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