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Classifications are connected with theories. The connection allows us to say that classifications have something to do with truth and knowledge. The kind of intended connection influences the way of conceiving the multiplicity of possible classifications for the same collection of entities. In some cases, a classification not only organizes the knowledge we already have of the classified entities but it helps to increase it. The aspect under which knowledge and classification interact most often concerns the identity of the classified entities. A brief survey of the classifications of diseases highlights this aspect. Moreover, it highlights the fact that different classes of diseases correspond to different theories, and that there is no clearly preferable way of classifying all diseases. Some ideas for a uniform and systematic management of this variety are proposed.
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- Giovanni Silvano, Vittoria Feola. Foreword
- Notes on contributors
- Fabrizio Baldassarri, Fabio Zampieri. Scientiae in the History of Medicine: an Introduction
- Fabio Zampieri. The University of Padua Medical School from the Origins to the Early Modern Time: A Historical Overview
- Cynthia Klestinec. The Anatomy Theater: Towards a Performative History
- Florike Egmond. Sixteenth-Century University Gardens in a Medical and Botanical Context
- Alberto Zanatta. The Origin and Development of Medical Museum Heritage in Padua
- Roberta Ballestriero. The Science and Ethics concerning the Legacy of Human Remains and Historical Collections: The Gordon Museum of Pathology in London
- R. Allen Shotwell. Between text and practice: the anatomical injections of Berengario da Carpi
- Maria Kavvadia. Sources and resources of court medicine in Mid-Sixteenth Rome: erudition as an epistemological and ethical claim
- Alessandra Celati. The experience of the physician Girolamo Donzellini in the 1575 Venetian plague: between Scientia and heterodoxy
- Elisabeth Moreau. Pestilence in Renaissance Platonic medicine: from astral causation to pharmacology and treatment
- Fabrizio Baldassarri. Elements of Descartes' medical Scientia: books, medical schools, and collaborations
- Luca Tonetti. Testing drugs in Giorgio Baglivi's dissertation on Vesicants
- Manuel De Carli. Tracing Senguerd's footprints: sciences and tarantism at Leiden Universtiy (1667-1715)
- Pierdaniele Giaretta. Classifications from an epistemological point of view with particular attention to the classifications of diseases
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