The Factory Model of Disease

The most basic version of the account is an analysis of disease in terms of statistical deviation understood in terms of cellular processes and analysed at the level of cellular networks. Distinguishing diseases from disorders will serve two purposes: first, of marking out an important family of non-disease conditions often requiring medical attention taken to fall within the confines of the disease concept, but which belong outside it; and second, of giving us a distinct but in many ways parallel case against which better to understand the account of disease on offer.