Disease concepts in domesticated animals : the role of deduction, induction and abduction
2012
Cabaret, Jacques, J. | Infectiologie et Santé Publique (UMR ISP) ; Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université de Tours (UT)
Session : Philosophie des sciences
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. Disease concept in humans is threefold: what you feel (sick : personal concept), what your doctor diagnosed (disease: biomedical concept), what society reckon about your disease (ill : sociological concept). These concepts fit also to animal diseases but they will be mediated through the owner, the vet and the health insurance company. The owner will base its sick category on the fact that the animal behave differently (it does not eat, is rejected by the others etc.) ; after these alerting signs, the owner may well have deepen his analysis: does the animal present fever, anaemia etc .. Induction and possibly abduction will be the major reasoning tools. The vet will be indicated which animal is behaving differently and will try to construct a diagnostic, alone or with the aid of the laboratory, and then will propose control of the disease either in a sole animal or in a group : the deduction will be the major tools .. The insurance expert, based on vet or other health experts, will then decide to reimburse the cost of treatments or not. The ill concept will be constructed from deduction (the vet/ laboratory diagnosis), induction (farmers/ owner view) and particularly abduction.
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