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    Medical research should not be restricted solely to the m... — Carmelics
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    Medical research should not be restricted solely to the molecular level

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    • 1.George Engel's biopsychosocial model demonstrates that psychological and social variables have measurable, independent causal roles in disease etiology.
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    • 2.Causal completeness in medicine requires explanatory frameworks that capture all causally efficacious variables, not merely those at one level of organization.
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    • 3.A methodology that systematically excludes known causal variables violates basic norms of scientific adequacy and produces structurally biased research outcomes.
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    • 1.Rudolf Virchow's foundational work established that political and economic conditions are pathological agents as causally real as bacteria or genetic mutations.
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    • 2.Epidemiological data on social determinants of health—income, race, housing—show population-level mortality gradients unexplained by molecular mechanisms alone.
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    • 1.Higher levels of social organization that are culturally sanctioned have unrecognized causal effects on health
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    • 2.Restricting research to the molecular level causes those causal effects to go unrecognized and unstudied
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    With regard to research, critics of reductionism point out that there has been an overemphasis on the pursuit of genetic or molecular level explanations of disease to the neglect of alternative levels of explanation. Further, such limitations are highly detrimental to patients, especially because there are not likely to be short-term cures or treatments for most genetic diseases, perhaps beyond avoiding having children carrying particular genes in the first instance (see for instance Hubbard an
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