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| Title |
Medical science, culture, and truth
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, December 2006
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| DOI | 10.1186/1747-5341-1-13 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Grant Gillett |
| Abstract |
There is a fairly closed circle between culture, language, meaning, and truth such that the world of a given culture is a world understood in terms of the meanings produced in that culture. Medicine is, in fact, a subculture of a powerful type and has its own language and understanding of the range of illnesses that affect human beings. So how does medicine get at the truth of people and their ills in such a way as to escape its own limited constructions? There is a way out of the closed circle implicit in the idea of a praxis and the engagement with reality that is central to it and the further possibility introduced by Jacques Lacan that signification is never comprehensive in relation to the subject's encounter with the real. I will explore both of these so as to develop a conception of truth that is apt for the knowledge that arises in the clinic. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 14% |
| India | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 5 | 71% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 48 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
| India | 1 | 2% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 43 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 7 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 7 | 15% |
| Researcher | 7 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 27% |
| Unknown | 5 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 23% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 19% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 13% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 10 | 21% |
| Unknown | 7 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 April 2020.
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#4,673,300
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#123
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#20,931
of 156,302 outputs
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#7
of 18 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 216 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. This one is in the 43rd percentile – i.e., 43% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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