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    Reclassifying short stature as 'idiopathic short stature'... — Carmelics
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    Reclassifying short stature as 'idiopathic short stature' by the FDA in 2003 demonstrates that diagnostic categories are partly socially constructed and subject to revision based on therapeutic availability rather than purely biological facts.

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    Biological facts(as used in philosophy of science)
    Things that are true about how our bodies and nature work, independent of what humans think or decide.
    Diagnostic categories(in psychology and medicine)
    Official labels or classifications that doctors or psychologists use to identify and name conditions or disorders.
    FDA (Food and Drug Administration)(as used in regulatory authority)
    A U.S. government agency that approves medicines and medical treatments to make sure they're safe and effective before people can use them.
    Idiopathic(as used in medical diagnosis)
    A medical term meaning a condition that occurs without a known cause or reason; doctors use it when they can't explain why something is happening.
    Socially constructed

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    Something that exists the way it does partly because society agreed to create it that way, rather than being a pure fact of nature—like how 'adulthood' is defined differently in different cultures.
    Therapeutic availability(as used in medical philosophy)
    Whether a treatment or cure exists for a condition; in other words, whether doctors can actually do something to help.

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