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What is a disease?

It sounds like a simple question. Right?  But it’s not when you delve into the question a little further and try to distinguish the difference between a disease, disorder, illness and medical condition.  What adds to the complexity is that different groups of people (mental health practitioners versus geneticists, for example) may use the same terms in different [...]