Foundations for a realist ontology of mental disease

<p>Abstract</p> <p>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...

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Main Authors: Ceusters Werner, Smith Barry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-12-01
Series:Journal of Biomedical Semantics
Online Access:http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/1/1/10