The Art and Science of Nondisease

FOR the physician accustomed to dealing only with pathologic entities, terms such as "nondisease entity" or "nondisease" are foreign and difficult to comprehend. This paper will present the background for the development of this new science, a classification of nondisease and finally the important therapeutic principles based on this concept.Since disease is an abnormal state that lends itself to classification into syndromes and entities, one tends to think of health or nondisease as all encompassing and without specificity. This is not the case, since it is now clear that "nondisease" may be used in quite a specific manner; furthermore, . . .