Jan Delabie, MD, PhD

In the introduction to his book,The Order of Things, the Frenchstructuralist philosopher MichelFoucault posed the question: "Whenwe establish a considered classification,when we say that a cat and adog resemble each other less thantwo greyhounds do, on what groundsare we able to establish the validityof this classification with completecertainty?" He went on: "On whattable, according to what grid of identities,similarities, analogies do wesort out so many different and similarthings."