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Psychiatry has long struggled with the nature of its diagnoses. This book brings together established experts in the wide range of disciplines that have an interest in psychiatric nosology. The contributors include philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists, historians and representatives of the efforts of DSM-III, DSM-IV and DSM-V.
Excerpt from A New Synopsis of Nosology, Founded on the Principles of Pathological Anatomy, and of the Natural Affinities of Diseases The word Nosology, according to its derivation, simply means a discourse on diseases; but, by conventional acceptation, it is used to signify their systematic classification. From the earliest periods in the history of medicine, when diseases came to be treated of in books, irregular vestiges of this department of medical science are to be found; and hence we observe the father of our art, Hippocrates, arranging diseases in groups, founded on some real or supposed analogy between them, or treating of them collectively, as they affect particular organs or parts...