3. Medical Being

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3. Medical Being

• MedO
• many MedOs
• BFO SNAPs, SPAN(s), granularity
• MedO SNAPs, SPAN(s), granularity
• different bodily systems
• total bodily system

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• Basic Formal Ontology
• collaboration with B. Bennett re axiom systems
• conference presentations
• many publications in good journals
• 2. Ceusters
• ontology software tools for medical NLP
• 3. Medical Being
• a big book

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Medical Being

• mereotopology Schubert (anatomy with holes)
• dependence
• granularity/partition theory molecules, cells
• SNAP/SPAN anatomy, physiology
• action/participation doctor, patient
• plans/functions/executions therapy, application
  of therapy
• causality/powers/dispositions placebo effect
• normativity health, disease, normal liver
• environment environmental influences on disease

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Medical Being

• a book,
• a textbook of medical ontology
• for pedagogical purposes
• for testing purposes (applied formal ontology)
• as a showcase of good ontological methods

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Chapters

• Main Body Systems
• structural system
• bones, muscles, connective tissue
• skin and hair
• circulatory system
• heart, veins, arteries, blood
• digestive system
• intestinal system
• urinary system

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Chapters

• Main Body Systems (contd.)
• nervous system
• respiratory system
• immune system
• How do these systems relate together?
• (a medico-ontological analogue of the mind-body
  problem)

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Chapters

• Embryonic Development
• Sexual Reproduction
• Birth
• Childhood
• Adolescence
• Aging
• Coma
• Death

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Chapters

• Health
• Disease
• Infection
• Accident, Injury, Wound
• Epidemiology

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Chapters

• Sleep, anaesthesia, coma
• Pain, Consciousness, Empathy, Sympathy
• Mental illness
• Therapy (null therapy)
• Cure
• Drug
• Recuperation

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Chapters

• Antigens
• viruses
• bacteria
• Parasites
• Food
• Alcohol