Ann Complement Altern Med | Volume 2, Issue 1 | Mini Review | Open Access

Precision Medicine and Natural Kinds: Evolutionary Struggle. Disease is a Natural Kind

Donald E Stanley^*

Miane Medical Center, USA

^*Correspondance to: Donald E Stanley 

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Abstract

Disease is a natural kind, it evolves, transmutes: providing precision medicine treatment is not feasible because medical evidence is based on general tenets applicable to all patients with a disease. Diseases are not stable entities but evolve under treatment to resist treatments e.g. MRSA, Influenza, cancers, TBC. Our taxonomy of disease is based on observations that, given signs and symptoms, diseases reflect the relationship between the disease and the patient; each patient manifests symptoms and signs that mimic, but do not match exactly those in others with the same disease.

Keywords:

Natural Kinds; Precision medicine; Sortals

Citation:

Stanley DE. Precision Medicine and Natural Kinds: Evolutionary Struggle. Disease is a Natural Kind. Ann Complement Altern Med. 2019; 1(1): 1004.