Christopher Boorse's biostatistical theory of health defines disease as subnormal species-typical functioning, making the treatment/enhancement line contingent on population reference classes rather than intrinsic patient properties.
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Subnormal species-typical functioning(what the theory defines as disease)
When an organism can't do the things that most members of its species can normally do—like if a human couldn't see or move as well as other humans typically can.
Treatment/enhancement line(what the theory tries to explain)
The boundary between fixing something that's broken or sick (treatment) versus improving something that's already normal (enhancement, like getting stronger than average).
contingent(De Interpretatione 12–13)
Equated with 'possible'; on the two-sided interpretation, contingency excludes necessity (possibility implies non-necessity).