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    It is not the case that The concept of disease necessarily requires that a condition have a causal history involving abnormal biological systems.

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    • 1.Boorse's biostatistical theory grounds disease in species-typical functional deviation, not causal history per se.
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    • 2.A condition arising from entirely normal biological processes can still constitute disease if it impairs species-typical function.
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    • 3.Menopause and senescence involve no abnormal biological systems yet remain contested disease candidates under causal-history views.
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    • 1.Nordenfelt's welfare theory defines disease by reference to the agent's inability to achieve vital goals, not by etiology.
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    • 2.Two conditions with identical causal histories but differing social contexts can diverge in disease status, undermining causal-history necessity.
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    • 1.Common sense understanding of human biology distinguishes between pathological and non-pathological versions of the same outward phenomena.
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    • 2.Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome is considered a disease not merely because aging is undesirable, but because it differs from normal aging in a way that must be caused by some underlying pathology.
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    • 3.Naturalism insists that disease involves a causal process that includes biological abnormalities.
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