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According to the WHO’s 1996 classification, the disease is deemed mild when the victim does not need to use walking aids regularly; moderate when one or two sticks or crutches are used; and severe when he or she is bedridden or unable to walk without support.
One is careless anthropology: Belgium's classification of Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda and Burundi, which reified a distinction that had not existed before, still haunts Africa's Great Lakes region.
Now, with more perspective, we should reconsider this classification.
Kimura’s theory was simple and elegant, but the classification of mutations into the distinct classes – beneficial, neutral, or harmful – seemed too simple to me.
In the accepted classification of sciences, mathematics is thought to be the queen, and the most difficult to grasp, followed by physics, chemistry, and, finally, biology.
But the current classification of the domains of life is based on the ribosome – the production apparatus of proteins – which does not exist in these viruses.
Consider the International Day Against Homo-, Bi-, and Trans-phobia, which is held on May 17 every year to commemorate the World Health Organization’s 1990 decision to remove homosexuality from its classification of mental disorders.
In Denmark, the Danish People's Party, which received 12% of the vote in recent elections, similarly resists classification.
Second, in accordance with China’s 12th Five-Year Plan, the free-trade zone aims to extend the industrial value chain and improve value-added content, promote the coordination of domestic and foreign investment in manufacturing, and strengthen the sector’s classification and assessment capacity.
And, in fact, the common classification of Rohingya as stateless “Bengalis” mirrors the status of Rohingya exiles in the country of their dreams, Pakistan, where tens of thousands took refuge during the Pakistani military genocide that led to Bangladesh’s independence.
Norway has emerged as a world leader in rigorous building standards aimed at enhancing protection from floods and storm surges, with legislation introduced over the last four years having established a classification system for new construction.
One factor underlying such threats to public health is classification.
Given that these are precisely the kind of behaviors that companies like the World Cup sponsors are encouraging, a better disease classification would be pestilentia lucro causa (PLC), or “profit-driven disease.”
The classification “senior state officials” is immediately problematic, owing to its ambiguity in terms of scope and function.
It is understandable that prior to the development of scientific methods of classification, cetaceans should be grouped with fish rather than with mammals.
In the recent history ofour country, we South African writers have been faced directly in our poetry,prose, and plays with the daunting challenge of which Milosz spoke.Transformation of the world of apartheid by literary means and or style wassimply not a possibility in a world of racial classification, mass relocation,and removal of peoples; the silencing of our people by detention without trial;the banishment of our people to our own Devil’s Island; and the overwhelming andever-present racist rhetoric of Verwoerd, Botha, and Terreblanche.
But the formal classification of diseases has another aspect, one that concerns a variety of important social functions.
Finally, diagnostic classification provides politicians the language for building or dismantling health programs.
At least in democratic societies, such policies should be accountable to the public, and the classification of diseases, since it serves many of the functions of public policy should be no different.
It turns out that psychiatry, in particular, has exhibited leadership and innovation in recognizing the public-policy aspects of diagnostic classification.
Both the ICD classification of mental disorders, and its American counterpart, the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) efforts have taken pains to make diagnostic classification accountable as examples of public policy.
Both organizations have included diverse representation on their working committees, invited input from “outsiders” to the professions and collaborated with related institutions and organizations in preparing their classification revisions.
In my view, the classification of mental disorders, as a form of public policy making, poses exceptional challenges.
Public policy concerning mental illness must, therefore, consider carefully the potential for imposing unjustified social and political values on people in the guise of the classification of disease.
Which traits are crucial to the definition of a “modern human,” and how far back can the classification be applied?
Furthermore, increasingly sophisticated DNA studies of extinct populations have shown that, despite their general classification as the distinct species Homo neanderthalensis, Neanderthals interbred with modern human groups as they dispersed out of Africa.
The assumption that “genetically engineered” or “genetically modified” is a meaningful – and dangerous – classification has led not only to vandalism of field trials, but also to destruction of laboratories and assaults on researchers.
Moreover, the GMO classification has encouraged unscientific regulatory approaches that are not commensurate with the level of risk, and that, by discriminating against modern molecular genetic-engineering techniques, inhibit agricultural innovation that could reduce strain on the natural environment and enhance global food security.
Although the precise rate of unemployment for particular ethnic groups is not known (French law precludes collecting data by ethnic classification), anecdotal evidence suggests much higher levels of joblessness for immigrants and their descendants.
That world – in which clearly defined sectors enable easy classification of what a company does – is disappearing before our eyes.
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