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The physician as teacher. Epistemic function, cognitive function and the incommensurability of errors.
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PMID:  21560574     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
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In many Hippocratic writings, the writers' attention is often focused on registering and discussing medical errors. Far from being sporadic and fortuitous, these discussions represent a privileged rhetorical resource in order to produce different effects. The aims of my paper will be: 1) to determine some of the most important contexts in which errors become the object of medical discourse; 2) to distinguish, per exempla, the typologies of errors made object of discourse; 3) to give an epistemological outline which may clarify which functions these discourses have and whether these functions respond coherently to a conscious plan of medical knowledge.
Authors:
Roberto Lo Presti
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Studies in ancient medicine     Volume:  35     ISSN:  0925-1421     ISO Abbreviation:  Stud Anc Med     Publication Date:  2010  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-05-11     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9112135     Medline TA:  Stud Anc Med     Country:  Netherlands    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  137-67     Citation Subset:  QIS    
Affiliation:
Department of Classical Philology of the Humboldt University of Berlin.
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