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The Medical Discourse

2003
It has already been suggested in the previous chapter that medicine provided the grounds for some of the most common justifications for leisure and recreation. Strictly speaking, it could be observed that leisure activities do not appear in medical literature for their recreational purpose; rather, for the functional role acknowledged to them in a ...
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Medical Discourse and Subjectivity

2015
Actors and users of the medical field (doctors, nurses, patients, medical students, pharmacists, etc.) are neither from the same social and professional category nor they have the same expertise level of the field. Their writings testify about this fact through the terminology used, for instance. Besides, the writings also show difference in the use of
Grabar, Natalia   +2 more
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Medical Discourse

Annual Review of Anthropology, 2009
Discourse plays an important role in medicine, and medical discourse in the broadest sense (discourse in and about healing, curing, or therapy; expressions of suffering; and relevant language ideologies) has profound anthropological significance. As modes of social action, writing and speaking help constitute medical institutions, curative practices ...
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The Semantics of Medical Discourse

1981
Steven Toulmin (1977) recently observed that during the 1960’s, students of the history and philosophy of science began to shift their attention from the comfortable study of the inner logic of scientific systems — the genetic history of science — toward a serious examination of the relationship of scientific systems to other aspects of society.
Byron J. Good, Mary-Jo Vecchio Good
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Ethics and the Daily Language of Medical Discourse

The Hastings Center Report, 1988
Ethics and the Daily Language of Medical Discourse Medicine is and always has been a profession that relies heavily on narrative. [1] Considerable writing has been done about the psychiatric case study as literature, but the medical case report can also be approached from a literary perspective and studied with many of the same methodologies that one ...
S, Poirier, D J, Brauner
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