DISEASES AS THINGS. “The ontological conception is aligned with substance ontology, as it regards diseases as particular things (or properties of things) that are discrete and exist independently of the body they infect, whereas the physiological conception is more congenial to process ontology, as it views diseases as temporally extended disruptions in the carefully regulated meshwork of interconnected processes that constitutes the body.”
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