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    Overemphasis on genetic or molecular level explanations of disease is detrimental to patients

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    • 1.Engel's biopsychosocial model demonstrates that reducing illness to molecular mechanisms systematically excludes psychosocial causal factors with proven therapeutic relevance.
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    • 2.When genetic explanations dominate clinical framing, physicians measurably underinvest in social determinants of health interventions that produce superior population-level outcomes.
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    • 3.Consequentialist harm calculus favors explanatory pluralism: neglecting upstream social causes perpetuates preventable suffering at scale while gene-level treatments remain inaccessible to most patients globally.
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    • 1.Canguilhem argued that disease is fundamentally a normative disruption of lived experience, not a molecular deviation, making genetic reductionism conceptually inadequate as a clinical framework.
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    • 2.Overemphasis on genetic etiology produces therapeutic nihilism in patients, who perceive their conditions as fixed and inevitable, undermining autonomous health-promoting agency.
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    • 1.There are not likely to be short-term cures or treatments for most genetic diseases
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    • 2.Focusing solely on the genetic level neglects alternative levels of explanation that could benefit patients
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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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