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    It is not the case that Overemphasis on genetic or molecular level explanations of disease is detrimental to patients

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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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    • 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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