 The distinction between disease and disability has received surprisingly little attention in the philosophical literature. Most statutory and other official definitions either treat serious diseases as disabilities or make “impairment”, “loss of function”, or “structural/functional abnormality” an element of disability, leaving the relationship of disease to disability unclear (e.g., Americans with Disabilities Act, 1990 or Disability Discrimination Act, 1995). One of the few detailed analyses of the relationship between disease and disability was offered by Ron Amundson, who proposed that disability should be understood as one of the three general consequences of disease, along with pain and death (Amundson 1992: 105–119). Amundson adopted Boorse’s value-neutral account of health, but argued that Boorse defined “disease” too broadly, as a “deviation from the functional organization of typical members of a species”—a definition which would encompass most disabilities. Amundson contended that it was both clearer and closer to common usage to treat disease as an atypical process that tended to result in disability, pain, or  death.[3]