How can you define a 'drug'? Nobody really knows
- Written by Sam Baron, Associate Professor, Philosophy of Science, Australian Catholic University
What’s a medical drug? Ask someone on the street and they’re likely to tell you it’s the kind of thing you take when you’re unwell.
This understanding is wrong, as we will see. But after a thorough investigation, my colleagues and I found no other potential definitions are any better.
Despite their centrality to medicine, we...
















