The naturalist answer to the question what makes some medical interventions directed against disease is that conditions which doctors treat are diseases in so far as they involve natural malfunctions.
Therefore, the objection continues, claims about natural functional and malfunction introduce normative considerations into the foundations of medicine, which are supposed to be purely scientific.
If a malfunction, natural disaster or terrorist attack triggered a leak or shut down the pool's cooling system, the rods would heat the remaining water in the pool, eventually boiling it off.
Large-scale failures triggered by undesirable events such as natural disasters, massive power malfunction, and malicious attacks are attracting serious concerns in communication network infrastructure perspective.
Possible causes range from the failure of single devices (a physical router, for example, may become inoperative if one of its components malfunctions) to natural disasters that damage several routers or links in one or more locations [35].
Objective: Malfunction of peritoneal natural killer cells (NK) may result in endometriosis.
An event E is defined as any extreme weather event or natural hazard that can cause malfunctions on transport networks (fires, floods, precipitation, hurricanes, storm surges, extreme heats, frost, landslides, wind and hail).
The key constructivist contention is that there is no natural, objectively definable set of human malfunctions that cause disease.
Mechanical malfunction is part of the natural order of things in a Mexican fisherman's universe, easier to avert than unpleasant weather but inevitable still.
Wakefield applies the picture to both mental and physical illness: first, we judge that a psychological mechanism is not performing the function for which natural selection designed it; second, we judge that the malfunction is harmful.
