TY - JOUR
T1 - How is cancer complex?
AU - Plutynski, Anya
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Nature B.V.
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - Cancer is typically spoken of as a “complex” disease. But, in what sense are cancers “complex”? Is there one sense, or several? What implications does this complexity have – both for how we study, and how we intervene upon cancers? The aim of this paper is first, to clarify the variety of senses in which cancer is spoken of as "complex" in the scientific literature, and second, to discover what explanatory and predictive roles such features play.
AB - Cancer is typically spoken of as a “complex” disease. But, in what sense are cancers “complex”? Is there one sense, or several? What implications does this complexity have – both for how we study, and how we intervene upon cancers? The aim of this paper is first, to clarify the variety of senses in which cancer is spoken of as "complex" in the scientific literature, and second, to discover what explanatory and predictive roles such features play.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106983693&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s13194-021-00371-8
DO - 10.1007/s13194-021-00371-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85106983693
SN - 1879-4912
VL - 11
JO - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
JF - European Journal for Philosophy of Science
IS - 2
M1 - 55
ER -