Treatment

Metagnosis ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 12-57
Author(s):  
Danielle Spencer

This chapter describes the narrative medicine methodology of this project, comprising three pillars. First is interdisciplinarity, bridging clinical and scientific research; history of science and medicine; literature and film; literary criticism and theory; and philosophy, among others. The use of rhetoric in such discourses is discussed, as well as the opportunity for meaningful critique in truly transdisciplinary work. Second is narrative attentiveness toward creative and clinical texts, illuminating and critiquing their rhetorical forms and effects. Third is the creation of a challenging writerly text—in this case, in moving between different roles, such as that of diagnostician, patient, critic—and highlighting the author’s own embodied experience, inviting the reader’s active involvement. This orientation shifts the narrative medicine emphasis on the clinician as reader/listener/interpreter to a mutually participatory engagement in which those in the patient role are understood as writerly readers. Finally, the figure of blindsight as a “prescription” for metagnosis is introduced.

PMLA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 135 (5) ◽  
pp. 982-988
Author(s):  
Yoon Sun Lee

Is literary criticism a kind of science? I want to start with this question in order to get at what might be an alternative to the terminology of the critical intervention. The type of criticism I focus on here is narratology. If theory is the ever-rebellious offspring of structuralism, then narratology could be seen as the latter's dutiful child, the inheritor of structuralism's methods and legacies. That portrayal exaggerates and simplifies, of course, but it does seem to me that narratologists have a way of arguing with each other that is rather different from the arguments of those working in other branches of theory. And it further strikes me that this difference has to do with narratology's image of itself as a type of science. To understand why, I want to suggest that we examine the history of narratology as a history of science.


Author(s):  
Peter E. Gordon ◽  
John P. McCormick

This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose, which is to bring together a broad range of papers on diverse themes pertaining to the intellectual and cultural history of the Weimar Republic. It includes a great variety of contributions by scholars affiliated with manifold disciplines, including, but not limited to, history, political theory, philosophy, sociology, history of science, film theory, art history, and literary criticism. Few if any single-volume works have succeeded at offering a unified portrait of the rich developments of Weimar thought, and the authors believe the time is right to offer a guidebook to the German interwar era, a compendium focused primarily on the major intellectual trends of the time. The chapter then discusses the unity and diversity of Weimar thought followed by an overview of the subsequent chapters.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Carlos Villa Soto ◽  
Norma Blazquez Graf

<span>The history of science shows in what directions we may move to open fruitful new paths in scientific research. One of the most attractive is the one that leads to the re-formulation of the problems affecting knowledge, and involves the re-conceptualization of study objects and the development of new strategies (of discovery and invention) to resolve them...</span>


Author(s):  
José Luiz Andrade Franco ◽  
José Augusto Leitão Drummond ◽  
Fernanda Pereira de Mesquita Nora

The study aims to discusses the history of scientific research and conservation efforts concerning the jaguar (Panthera onca) in its entire current range, focusing in its status in the Brazilian territory. It addresses the range, the ecology, the behavior and the survival strategies of the species. The study also discusses human perceptions and reactions to its presence and presents the roles of hunters and scientists in the construction of current knowledge about the species. In short, all recorded conservation efforts concerning the species in the Brazilian territory, one of its major living áreas, are discussed in detail.


1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (7) ◽  
pp. 654-656
Author(s):  
Harry Beilin

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