Thematic progression in professional and popular medical texts

1991 ◽  
pp. 369-384 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Texts ◽  
Thematic Progression

scholarly journals Thematization in Native and Nonnative Medical Discourse: A Systemic Functional Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
MASHAEL ALRAJHI
Keyword(s):  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Functional Approach ◽  
Medical Discourse ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Thematic Progression ◽  
Intended Interpretation ◽  
Scientific Nature ◽  
Medical Articles ◽  
Shed Light

Thematization serves to focus the readers’ attention to the focal aspects of a text in order to deliver its intended interpretation. The cohesion of texts relies on the structure of messages. Consequently, the way in which messages are constructed as the text unfolds contributes to its cohesion. Since the probability of making mistakes in writing is higher in nonnative texts as their writers are not using their mother tongue, a comparison between medical articles written by native and nonnative writers is drawn in the present study to shed light on the similarities and differences among them. Due to the scientific nature of medical texts, writers might face difficulties in the interconnectedness of ideas within the text. Therefore, the medical field texts are inspected to check their correspondence with texts in other fields. The Hallidayan systemic-functional approach (SFL) was utilized to conduct the analysis. The results show that there is a consistency in the distribution of Theme types and Thematic progression patterns among native and nonnative writers. In addition, the findings that relate to the dominance of the topical Theme and the constant Theme pattern in medical texts are in alignment with the results of studies in other fields such as academia.

2398-PUB: The Interplay of Type 1 Diabetes and Weight: A Qualitative Study of Thematic Progression with Age

Diabetes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 2398-PUB
Author(s):  
ANANTA ADDALA ◽  
DARIA IGUDESMAN ◽  
ANNA R. KAHKOSKA ◽  
FRANKLIN R. MUNTIS ◽  
KATHERINE J. SOURIS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Type 1 Diabetes ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Thematic Progression

Thematic Progression in Students’ Descriptive Texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 575
Author(s):  
Galih Pangestu ◽  
Ervina Dwita Harvian ◽  
Dasep Suprijadi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Thematic Progression

Thematic progression is important in coherence to be considered as good text. So, it needs the element of thematic progression or it can be called theme and rheme. Theme and rheme constitutes the main part of clause, because comprehending the thematic progression may help to understand whole clause.  The coherence text should also be necessary written by students in senior high school in Batujajar. This investigation is conducted to consider the thematic progression and coherence in descriptive text. The purpose of this research is to identify types of thematic progression in students’ descriptive text and the levels of coherence in students’ descriptive text. The researchers use descriptive quantitative method.. The data are all clauses from paragraphs on text. The result of the result shows that there are two of three models of thematic progression found, namely zig-zag theme and re-iteretion. In addition, the finding also found that  there are three level coherence in every students’ descriptive text such as a good, fair, and less levels coherence.

Syphilis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Sexually Transmitted Disease ◽  
Transmitted Disease ◽  
New Disease ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
New Name ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Tit For Tat

By exploring the wide range of names given to the ‘new’ sexually transmitted disease—the Great Pox—this chapter dispels notions held for two centuries or more. Instead, no tit-for-tat-naming war among nations accused of carrying the disease ensued. The ‘French disease’ alone became standard in medical texts, but not among commoners and not after the late sixteenth century for physicians. The chapter challenges a second truism of the historiography: that naming meant blaming. Although the disease was named after the French, no laws or pogroms ensued against them or any other ‘other’. However, physicians increasingly identified humans as the essential carriers of this new disease and became concerned with tracking human contacts. By the end of the sixteenth century, medical texts had renamed it the territorially neutral lues venerea. Coincidently, with the rise of this new name, blame placed on women, the poor, and victims of the disease increased.

scholarly journals De-identifying Spanish medical texts - named entity recognition applied to radiology reports

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Pérez-Díez ◽  
Raúl Pérez-Moraga ◽  
Adolfo López-Cerdán ◽  
Jose-Maria Salinas-Serrano ◽  
María de la Iglesia-Vayá
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Health Records ◽  
English Language ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Named Entity Recognition ◽  
Entity Recognition ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Named Entity ◽  
Radiology Reports ◽  
Electronic Health

Abstract Background Medical texts such as radiology reports or electronic health records are a powerful source of data for researchers. Anonymization methods must be developed to de-identify documents containing personal information from both patients and medical staff. Although currently there are several anonymization strategies for the English language, they are also language-dependent. Here, we introduce a named entity recognition strategy for Spanish medical texts, translatable to other languages. Results We tested 4 neural networks on our radiology reports dataset, achieving a recall of 97.18% of the identifying entities. Alongside, we developed a randomization algorithm to substitute the detected entities with new ones from the same category, making it virtually impossible to differentiate real data from synthetic data. The three best architectures were tested with the MEDDOCAN challenge dataset of electronic health records as an external test, achieving a recall of 69.18%. Conclusions The strategy proposed, combining named entity recognition tasks with randomization of entities, is suitable for Spanish radiology reports. It does not require a big training corpus, thus it could be easily extended to other languages and medical texts, such as electronic health records.

scholarly journals Normalizing Vision: The Representation and Use of Spectacles and Eyeglasses in Victorian Britain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gemma Almond
Keyword(s):  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Visual Aids ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
First Time ◽  
Material Evidence

Abstract This study explores the representation and use of Victorian visual aids, specifically focusing on how the design of spectacle and eyeglass frames shaped ideas of the ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ body. It contributes to our understanding of assistive technologies in the Victorian period by showcasing the usefulness of material evidence for exploring how an object was produced and perceived. By placing visual aids in their medical and cultural context for the first time, it will show how the study of spectacle and eyeglass frames develops our understanding of Victorian society more broadly. Contemporaries drew upon industrialization, increasing education, and the proliferation of print to explain a rise in refractive vision ‘errors’. Through exploring the design of three spectacle frames from the London Science Museum’s collections, this study will show how the representations and manufacture of visual aids transformed in response to these wider changes. The material evidence, as well as contemporary newspapers, periodicals, and medical texts, reveal that visual aids evolved from an unusual to a more mainstream device. It argues that visual aids are a unique assistive technology, one that is able to inform our understanding of how Victorians measured the body and constructed ideas of ‘normalcy’ and ‘abnormalcy’.

A DEFENSE OF THE CAROLINGIAN “DEFENSE OF MEDICINE”: INTRODUCTION, TRANSLATION, AND NOTES

Traditio ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 87-125
Author(s):  
JOEL L. GAMBLE
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Imitation Of Christ ◽  
History Of ◽  
As If

The “Defense of Medicine” prefaces the Codex Bambergensis Medicinalis 1, a Carolingian collection of medical texts. Some scholars have dismissed the Defense as an incoherent patchwork of quotations. Yet, missing from the literature is an adequate assessment of the Defense's arguments. This present study includes the first English translation accompanied by a complete source commentary, a prerequisite for valid content analysis. When read systematically and with attention to the author's use of sources, the Defense is limpid and cogent. Its first purpose is to defend the compatibility of Christian faith and secular medicine. Key propositions include the following: God made nature good, so the natural sciences are reconcilable with divine learning; scripture respects medicine; God expects the sick to avail of physicians and deserves honor for healings done through physicians. Counter-arguments used by the Defense's opponents, who rejected medicine on principle, can also be reconstructed from the text. Two further purposes of the Defense have hitherto been explored insufficiently. After justifying medicine, the Defense addresses sick patients. It encourages them that illness can be spiritually healthful, an instrument for curing their souls. The Defense then addresses caregivers. It tells them why they should succor the sick, even the poor: not for gain or fame, but in imitation of Christ and as if treating Christ himself, whose image the sick bear. The Defense thus contributes to the history of ideas on medicine, health, sickness, and the ethics of altruistic care.

The lexicon of pulmonary ailment in some medieval Irish medical texts

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-130
Author(s):  
Deborah Hayden
Keyword(s):  
Medical Texts ◽  
Irish Medical

Résumé Le terme loch tuile ne se trouve pas dans les sources lexicographiques qui ont été publiées jusqu’à présent pour les langues gaéliques. Il est utilisé, cependant, pour faire référence à la maladie pulmonaire dans des manuscrits médicaux irlandais copiés pendant les quinzième et seizième siècles, dans un cas comme glose interlinéaire sur le texte juridique en vieil-irlandais connu sous le nom de Bretha Déin Chécht (‘Les jugements [du médecin mythologique] Dían Cécht’). Il s’agit dans cet article d’examiner quelques attestations de ce terme et de ses dérivés, en faisant appel à textes qui se trouvent dans quatre manuscrits différents. La discussion vise alors à élucider quelques aspects de la terminologie médicale gaélique pendant l’époque médiévale, et aussi à faire des observations préliminaires sur les liens qui auraient existé entre les manuscrits en question.

Medical Metaphors of Women's Bodies: Menstruation and Menopause

1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Martin
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Reproductive Organs ◽  
Central Control ◽  
Centralized Control ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Waste Products ◽  
Bureaucratic Organization ◽  
Medical Metaphors ◽  
Female Reproductive Organs

Implicit, underlying imagery in medical descriptions of menstruation and menopause is exposed, beginning with 19th century views. Contemporary medical texts and teaching reveal two fundamental assumptions about women's bodies. First, they assume that female reproductive organs are organized as if they form a hierarchical, bureaucratic organization under centralized control. Given this assumption, menopause comes to be described negatively, as a process involving breakdown of central control. Second, they assume that women's bodies are predominantly for the purpose of production of desirable substances, primarily babies. Given this assumption, menstruation comes to be seen negatively, as a process involving failed production, waste products, and debris. Alternative imagery that works from our current understanding of physiology, but avoids denigration of women's bodies, is suggested.

scholarly journals And You Will Be Amazed: The Rhetoric of Authority in the Greek Magical Papyri

2020 ◽  
Vol 21-22 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-49
Author(s):  
Radcliffe G. Edmonds
Keyword(s):  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Traditional Authority ◽  
Medical Texts ◽  
Second Person ◽  
Intended Audience ◽  
Dominant Strategies ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractAn analysis of the rhetorical strategies used in the so-called Greek Magical Papyri to bolster the authority of the authors provides insight into the authors of these texts and their intended audiences. This article reviews the scholarship on the identity of the composers of the Greek Magical Papyri and explores the rhetorical strategies used in the texts to create authority, before comparing the dominant strategies in the Greek Magical Papyri with similar ones in other kinds of recipe collections, specifically alchemical and medical texts. The authors of the recipes in the Greek Magical Papyri make little use of the traditional authority of the temples but instead justify their claims of superiority with reference to the amazing efficacy of the procedures they describe. The direct, second person address in formulas such as “and you will be amazed” suggests that the intended audience was imagined not as potential clients who need to be convinced of the author’s expertise, but rather as potential practitioners interested in impressing their own clients.

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