Foundations for a realist ontology of mental disease
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Foundations for a realist ontology of mental disease
While classifications of mental disorders have existed for over one hundred years, it still remains unspecified what terms such as 'mental disorder', 'disease' and 'illness' might actually denote. While ontologies have been called in aid to address this shortfall since the GALEN project of the early 1990s, most attempts thus far have sought to provide a formal description of the structure of so...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biomedical Semantics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2041-1480
DOI: 10.1186/2041-1480-1-10