This book aims to cover both the ontological determination and the characterization of what we call with terms such as disease and others related. The current edition is a more complete version of the first edition in Spanish that was published four years ago. In this edition, both semantic and gnoseological as well as ontological issues have been developed in more detail and depth. The foregoing is due to the fact that we could establish the meaning of the disease concept based on its explicit ontological reference, namely, the question about the existence of disease. Furthermore, to achieve that aim, it is appropriate to consider the essential properties of live systems. Consequently, this edition has reviewed in greater depth what is related to bioplasticity and macromolecular interactive processes of live systems, including epigenetic processes.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Neurocognition and language
- Chapter 2: Natural versus cultural
- That which is called disease: a construct
whose reference is supernatural,
natural, or cultural?
- Chapter 3: About that which exists
- Neurocognitive processes and conceptualization
- Existence
- Chapter 4: Distinguishing entities by their origins
- Natural existents
- Non-natural existents
- Insistents and neurocognitive processes
- Abstract constructs or concepts
- Human values
- Predictions and fictions
- Chapter 5: The entity called disease:
an existent or an insistent?
- The reference for ‘disease’
- Content of the construct ‘disease’
- Chapter 6: Diseased (vital) existents
- Material systems
- Live systems
- Vital properties
- Self-regulation and homeostasis
- Bioplasticity
- Epigenetics and bioplasticity
- Cellular bioplasticity: the importance
of some macromolecules
- 1. DNA and RNA
- 2. Proteins
- Intrinsically disordered
or flexible proteins
- Bioplasticity and adaptation
- Healthy and diseased vital states
- Conclusions
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