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International Journal for Quality in Health Care Advance Access originally published online on April 25, 2006
International Journal for Quality in Health Care 2006 18(4):264-265; doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzl008
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International Journal for Quality in Health Care vol. 18 no. 4 © The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of International Society for Quality in Health Care; all rights reserved

Borges on classification

Thomas V. Perneger

Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Geneva and Quality of Care Service, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Address reprint requests to Thomas V. Perneger, Quality of Care Service, University Hospitals of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland. E-mail: thomas.perneger@hcuge.ch

Accepted for publication March 27, 2006.

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The great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges wrote in 1942 an essay titled ‘El idioma analítico de John Wilkins’ in which he laid out the challenges of human attempts to classify the world [1]. To illustrate his argument, Borges . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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