In contemporary philosophy of psychiatry, one increasingly hears the claim that if mental disorders turn out to be dimensional, the very idea of diagnostic validity may no longer be very important.

You feel unwell, and visit your doctor. They ask some questions and take some blood for testing; a few days later they call to say you have been diagnosed with a disease. What are the chances you ...

It is difficult to recall a time when doctors and patients had trouble tracking the presence of glucose and other substances in urine and blood. Lack of sufficient measurement tools made it difficult ...