探索疾病概念的现实意义与哲学研究

Exploring the Real-world Significance and Philosophical Research to the Concept of Disease

疾病与健康是医学领域中的一对基石性概念。然而,疾病这一概念的理解在公众之间、医学专业人士之间和中西医学教材中均呈现出巨大的差异性。这些对疾病的不同理解,不仅直接塑造了医疗实践的边界,还在如个体的感知、医疗与社会资源分配以及医学伦理等现实多维度具有深远的影响力。通过对疾病进行哲学上的概念分析,可以把握疾病的核心特征,并据此将相关身体或心理状态划分为疾病或非疾病。此外,随着医学和生物科学与技术的发展,疾病定义的内涵与外延也在不断演化。因此,科学界也呼吁对疾病的概念进行更新或重新定义。

Disease and health are a pair of foundational concepts in the field of medicine.However,the understanding of the concept of disease shows great variability among the public,medical professionals,and in both Western and Eastern medical textbooks.These diverse understandings of disease not only directly shape the boundaries of medical practice but also have profound impacts on multiple dimensions of reality,such as individual perceptions,allocation of medical and social resources,and medical ethics.A philosophical conceptual analysis of disease enables us to grasp the core characteristics of disease and accordingly categorize certain physical or psychological states either as disease or non-disease.Moreover,with the development of science and technology in medicine and biology,the connotation and extension of the definition of disease are constantly evolving.Therefore,the scientific community is also calling for an update or redefinition of the concept of disease.