The Philosophy of Nosology.¶
Zachar, P., & Kendler, K. S. (2017). The Philosophy of Nosology. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 13, 49-71.
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- In medical and diagnostic categories, criteria are tightened mid-debate so that patients whose response would embarrass a favored theory are reclassified as "not really having" the condition.
This sourceAnalyzes how diagnostic criteria are constructed, revised, and tightened over time, and the reification of operationalized criteria — grounding the medical-category case of mid-debate criterion-shifting to exclude embarrassing cases.
- In medical and diagnostic categories, criteria are tightened mid-debate so that patients whose response would embarrass a favored theory are reclassified as "not really having" the condition.
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