On BPS & disease causation: George Davey Smith’s cautionary tale

by Professor Chris Ponting A guide to the Biopsychosocial model recently put out by Long Covid Advocacy ultimately brought me to a 2005 book chapter, written by Professor George Davey Smith, entitled The biopsychosocial approach: a note of caution in Biopsychosocial Medicine: An Integrated Approach to Understanding Illness, edited by Peter White and published by Oxford University Press. The…