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A Medical Philosophical Reflection on the Concept of Disease Byung Tai Yoon (Yonsei Universitiy) Nowadays we tend to consider the whole process of life as disease. This tendency depends upon the ideology according to which medicine cures everything. In this context, this paper aims to investigate the philosophical significance about disease. To do so, I wish to pinpoint the classical understanding of the disease concept and identify what meaning and value it might assign to the empirical definition of disease. I also intend to do a critical examination of today's tendency which interprets the whole phase of disease from the mechanism viewpoint under the name of science. Futhermore, I shall figure out how patient and doctor, the two social factors in disease, are related. Hopefully, this would be helpful in exploring the possibility of establishing the concept of disease suitable for nowadays.