CauseHealth: An Interview with Rani Lill Anjum
Today I interview Rani Lill Anjum on her exciting project CauseHealth . Rani works as a philosopher of science at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and is the Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science (CAPS), always at NMBU. LB: How did you first become interested in causation in the health sciences? RLA: I started thinking about causation in medicine back in 2011, when I was working on my research project Causation in Science. Many of my collaborators already had an interest in philosophy of medicine, and I started thinking that if causation was complicated in physics, biology, psychology and social science, then medicine must be the biggest challenge. After all, a person is the unity of them all, as physiological, biological, mental and social beings. Also, our health is causally influenced by or even the result of what happens to us at all these levels. LB: What would you describe as the main finding of CauseHealth now that it is drawing...