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As people and places have moved out of eponymous and loconymous classification, these specific categories are replaced by a general set, what we call the kindness of strangers. By this we mean that the classification system operates a shift away from our being individuals experiencing the world to our being kinds of people experiencing kinds of places. The constructions of social and natural science and of the legal world have moved in. Broken legs and ski resort locations coevolve, as do cancer rates and toxic waste dumps. The classification system, as we shall see in this section, has become a site that holds these constructions together and, through excluding other kinds of story, makes them more real. With the ICD providing the main legitimate means for describing illness, the social, economic, and political stories woven into its fabric become by extension the main legitimate narrative threads for the science of medicine. |
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Although particular places have moved out, two places have come to play a more significant role in the classification system, the laboratory and the "sociological home." This latter appears in the extra categories developed for ICD-9 as supplemental codes, which in ICD-10 have become fully integrated, what we might call the context codes. Thus housing is one of the conditions that can be broken down and described as part of the classification. In ICD-9 it is described as follows: |
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| V60 | Housing, household and economic circumstances | | V60.0 | Lack of housing | | | Hobos | Transients | | | Social migrants | Vagabonds | | | Tramps | | | | V60.1 | Inadequate housing | | | Lack of heating | | | | | Restriction of space | | | | | Technical defects in home preventing adequate care | | V60.2 | Inadequate material resources | | Economic problem | Poverty NOS | | V60.3 | Person living alone | | V60.6 | Person living in residential institution | | | | Boarding school resident | | V60.8 | Other specified housing or economic circumstances | | V60.9 | Unspecified housing or economic circumstances. | | (ICD-9, 1: 267) |
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