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    It is not the case that Medical research should not be restricted solely to the molecular level

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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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    • 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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