id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_rghh5lmir5ffdmbkabuiz5lvwy Paul Thagard Pathways to Biomedical Discovery 2003 34 .pdf application/pdf 8026 586 52 Many diseases can be explained by defects in pathways, and new treatments often How do pathways provide new mechanistic explanations of diseases? pathways explain how cells function and how diseases arise. explanation schemas for diseases are treatment strategies that suggest ways of curing or explanations that use pathways to explain how cells work. when a pathway is the mechanism that enables a cell to carry out some useful function, Explanation Schema is internal in this way, since it involves pathways inside a cell that functional cells can be used in the explanation of disease: mechanistic explanation of diseases can be based either on defective internal pathways or Many diseases are caused by defective internal pathways inside cells and are Identify a pathway found in defective cells that contribute to the disease. biochemical pathways contributes to the explanation and treatment of disease, but it has ./cache/work_rghh5lmir5ffdmbkabuiz5lvwy.pdf ./txt/work_rghh5lmir5ffdmbkabuiz5lvwy.txt