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    Any account of biological malfunction must be grounded in a prior theory of biological function

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    • 1.Malfunction is the failure to perform a function
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    • 2.To identify malfunction one must first identify what the function is
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    • 1.Christopher Boorse's biostatistical theory identifies malfunction through statistical species-norms without presupposing any teleological function theory.
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    • 2.A part malfunctions when its contribution to survival and reproduction falls below species-typical levels, a fact determinable by population statistics alone.
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    • 3.If malfunction can be defined statistically, then function-talk is explanatorily posterior to, not prior to, malfunction ascription.
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    • 1.Pathologists routinely identify cellular and systemic malfunctions through deviation from structural integrity before any functional role is theorized.
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    • 2.Jerome Wakefield's hybrid disorder concept shows that harmful dysfunction judgments draw on lay value assessments independent of prior biological function theory.
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    • 3.This indicates that malfunction identification is partly constituted by harm-recognition, making function theory a supplementary rather than foundational condition.
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    This counterexample is instructive, however, since there are two ways of amending the proposal in the light of it. First, perhaps the principle of nondistinct sustaining causes fails to capture our intuitions about causes of disease. A second possibility is that the principle is a good causal condition, but that the account of evils is too broad, and needs to be restricted to a more intuitively medical set of evils, rather than the broader class of impediments to well-being. The section on healt
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