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Page 79 process occurs with deletion of detail and the uncertainties of discovery in any scientific publication, as Latour and Woolgar noted in their classic Laboratory Life (1979; see also Star 1983). Places follow a similar path to abstraction and formal representation. The ideal ICD disease is not tied to a particular spot, it is rather identified with a particular causal agent. Up to and including ICD-9, however, leishmaniasis was a classification that told a travelers' tale; not only do we know what you got sick of but where you got sick: 085 Leishmaniasis 085.0 Visceral [kalaazar] Dumdum fever Leishmaniasis: Infection by Leishmania: dermal, post-kala-azar donovani Mediterranean infantum visceral (Indian) 085.1 Cutaneous, urban Aleppo boil Leishmaniasis, Baghdad boil cutaneous: Delhi boil dry form Infection by Leishmania late tropica (minor) recurrent Ulcerating Oriental sore 085.2 Cutaneous, Asian desert Infection by Leishmania tropica major Leishmaniasis, cutaneous: Acute necrotizing Rural Wet form Zoonotic form 085.3 Cutaneous, Ethiopian Infection by Leishmania ethiopica Leishmaniasis, cutaneous: Diffuse Lepromatous 085.4 Cutaneous, American Chiclero ulcer Infection by Leishmania mexicana Leishmaniasis tegumentaria diffusa 085.5 Mucocutaneous (American) Espundia Infection by Leishmania braziliensis Uta 085.9 Leishmaniasis, unspecified (ICD-9-CM, 16)
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