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Figure 2.3
A standard international death certificate.
Source: Adapted from Fagot-Largeault 1986. |
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Thus there is now one more blank line on the form to indicate multiple causation. |
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A major change incorporated in the classification scheme in the last two revisions has been the so-called "dagger and asterisk" system, this is a means of cross-referencing manifestations and underlying causes for a particular disease. The ICD and its instruments have thus, through a pair of small-scale formal changes (a line here and an asterisk there), loosened up their implicit causality and thus their picture of the past. Histories now can be more fluid than they once could. More complex narratives are possible. |
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