Quotes About Etiological

The article ended by downplaying "disparate access to medical care or other environmental factors," arguing that "our data suggest that the proposed genetic component to preterm birth may be a greater etiological contributor than previously recognized"—despite presenting no genetic data whatsoever!22

The tendency to split etiological factors of disease into psychic or somatic components, though heuristic for many purposes, nevertheless perpetuates, at least implicitly, a mind-body dualism that has defied rational solution for centuries. Perhaps what we need is a new formulation of this ancient problem, one that does not propose a formidable gap between the separate realities of mind and body . . .