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    It is not the case that Two conditions with identical causal histories but differing social contexts can diverge in disease status, undermining causal-history necessity.

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    • 1.Social context affects disease *expression* and *management*, not underlying causal necessity; the pathophysiology remains causally identical.
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    • 2.Confounding social variables don't undermine causal necessity—they show causal histories were never truly identical if social factors were omitted.
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    • 3.Disease status as a biological phenomenon is distinct from disease *recognition*; divergent labeling doesn't prove causal necessity is false.
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    • 1.Social recognition and diagnostic frameworks determine disease status; identical biological states receive different disease labels across contexts.
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    • 2.Disease causation includes social determinants of health; identical causal histories lack identical social conditions, so they lack identical full causes.
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    • 3.Access to treatment and prognosis differ by social context; a condition untreated in one context but treated in another has divergent disease trajectories.
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