The classification of endometriosis: A comprehensive review

Most early medical classifications were descriptive, frequently devised by pathologists and physiologists who were interested in the aetiology and pathophysiology of specific disorders. The impact on clinical medicine caused Feinstein1 to remark The organization of data and thought in modern clinical therapy is still based on a diagnostic classification of disease — the taxonomy of morbid anatomy — that was initiated almost 200 years ago. In preserving the diagnostic nomenclature of pathologic anatomy as the main contemporary system of identifying human ailments, clinicians perpetuate a mode of thinking that classifies morphologic form, but not clinical function; that classifies disease, but not people or illness; and that classifies clinical inferences, but not clinical observations. Preview Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF. Similar content being viewed by others

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