Nosologomania: DSM & Karl Jaspers' Critique of Kraepelin

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Emil Kraepelin's nosology has been reinvented, for better or worse. In the United States, the rise of the neo-Kraepelinian nosology of DSM-III resuscitated Kraepelin's work but also differed from many of his ideas, especially his overtly biological onto...

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Main Author: Ghaemi S Nassir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-07-01
Series:Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
Online Access:http://www.peh-med.com/content/4/1/10