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    Challenges→Conceptual analysis alone cannot decide between competing analyses of disease because contending parties will be led by differing intuitions to accept different stipulations as reasonable.

    Boorse's biostatistical theory grounds disease concepts in species-typical functioning, providing an objective, non-stipulative standard independent of evaluative intuitions.

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    • 1.Species-typical functioning is empirically measurable via comparative anatomy and physiology, avoiding reliance on subjective value judgments.
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    • 2.Objective disease criteria prevent medicalization of normal variation and protect against using diagnosis as a tool for social control.
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    • 3.Evolutionary adaptedness provides a principled basis for distinguishing pathology from mere difference across diverse organisms and populations.
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    • 1.Defining species-typical functioning requires prior stipulations about which traits, timeframes, and statistical distributions count as 'normal.'
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    • 2.Many conditions (myopia, menopause, infertility) deviate from statistical norms but lack clear evolutionary dysfunction or may be individually adaptive.
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    • 3.Clinical judgments about harm, suffering, and treatment necessity inherently involve values that biostatistical theory cannot eliminate but merely obscures.
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