Robbins, Stanley

Rassu, Gloria, 52 Riera, Antoni, 193 Robbins, Morris, 175 Roberts, Stanley, 91 Romo, Daniel, 202 Roush, William R., 174 Rovis, Tomislav, 78, 203 Rowlands, Gareth, 92 Rychnovsky, Scott, 162... 

Each of these concepts has its proper place. But only the pathologist s concept of disease is relevant to the scientific definition of disease as a departure from normal bodily structure andfunction. All illnesses, writes Stanley L. Robbins, the author of a standard textbook of pathology, are expressions of cellular derangements.This concept is indifferent to the condition s cause, the affected organism s feelings or wishes about it, or society s legal and political atti-... 

John Samuelson and Franz von Lichtenberg, Infectious Diseases, in Ramzi S. Cotran, Vinay Kumar, and Stanley L. Robbins, eds., Robbins Pathologic Basis of Disease (Philadelphia WB. Saunders Company 5 ed. 1994) p. 328. 

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