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  • Chapter 9 - Health and Disease, Illness and Well-Being

  • G. E. R. Lloyd, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge
  • Book:
    Expanding Horizons in the History of Science
    Published online:
    17 August 2021
    Print publication:
    26 August 2021, pp 106-114
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    This chapter accepts that biomedicine is the dominant influence on our ideas about health and disease but considers what qualifications need to be introduced to do justice first to the more complicated issues to do with mental health and then to the very diverse conceptions that have been entertained in this area in non-Western societies, ancient and modern. Drawing on Hacking’s work on natural kinds and Luhrmann’s analysis of the uncertainties of modern psychiatry, it suggests further respects in which we need to exercise caution in assessing competing claims for expertise in this area.