Title: Philosophical Perspectives on Cancer Biology and Medicine

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Abstract
Descriptive Summary: Participants in this symposium will bring diverse perspectives to philosophical issues arising out of cancer science and medicine. Speakers will discuss conceptual and epistemic issues arising in cancer research, such as how best to define cancer “drivers” and “actionable” mutations, whether and in what senses cancer is a process or product of multilevel selection, the clonal evolution model, and the role of comparative biology in cancer research.
Abstract ID :
PSA2022113
Submission Type
presenting talk, governing board
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Washington University in St. Louis
Researcher
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University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
co-presenter
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Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
Co-symposiast
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Bristol
Speaker
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CNRS - University of Bordeaux
Co-author
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CNRS - University of Bordeaux

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