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Bill Poole of Leco and Associates, Pittsburgh, for permission to reprint their advertisement "monitoring the classification: the recovery room," figure 3.2.
The Hoover Institution for its help in locating and reproducing the photograph in figure 6.1. The photo was originally in a pamphlet in their collection, "The Fight for Freedom in South Africa and What It Means for Workers in the United States," produced by Red Sun Press Publications, nd.
Mosby Publishers, St. Louis, for permission to reproduce illustrations from the Nursing Interventions Classification, eds. Joanne McCloskey and Gloria Bulecheck, second edition, figures 7.1 to 7.5.
The World Health Organization, Geneva, for permission to reproduce charts from the international classification of diseases, ICD-9 and ICD-10, figures 2.1 and 2.2.
The picture of the Wilkinson's family (father, mother and two children) appears courtesy of Terry Shean/Sunday Times, Johannesburg.
Envoi
We would hate to have to assign a Dewey classification number to this book, which straddles sociology, anthropology, history and information systems, and design. Our modest hope is that it will not find its way onto the fantasy shelves.

 
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