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Paul Thagard, How Scientists Explain Disease. Princeton: Princeton University Press (1999), 263pp., $29.95 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Lindley Darden
Lindley Darden*
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University of Maryland, College Park
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 67 , Issue 2 , June 2000 , pp. 352 - 354
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Copyright © 2000 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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