Review: Hirudo and its Medical Role

India has long occupied an important place in Tibetan medicine's history and development. However, Indian Himalayan practitioners of Tibetan medicine, or amchi, have largely remained overlooked at the Tibetan medical periphery, despite playing a central social and medical role in their communities. Power and legitimacy, religion and economic development, biomedical encounters and Indian geopolitics all intersect in the work and identities of contemporary Himalayan amchi. This volume examines the crucial moment of crisis and transformation that occurred in the early 2000s to offer insights into the beginnings of Tibetan medicine's professionalization, industrialization, and official recognition in India and elsewhere. Based on fine-grained ethnographic studies in Ladakh, Zangskar, Sikkim, and the Darjeeling Hills, Healing at the Periphery asks how the dynamics of capitalism, social change, and the encounter with biomedicine affect small communities on the fringes of modern India, and, conversely, what local transformations of Tibetan medicine tell us about contemporary society and health care in the Himalayas and the Tibetan world. Contributors. Florian Besch, Calum Blaikie, Sienna R. Craig, Barbara Gerke, Isabelle Guérin, Kim Gutschow, Pascale Hancart Petitet, Stephan Kloos, Fernanda Pirie, Laurent Pordié

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Toward an Empirically Informed Approach to Medical Virtues

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199385195.013.30 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Justin Oakley

Keyword(s):

Virtue Ethics ◽

Moral Psychology ◽

Empirical Research ◽

Strong Evidence ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Policy Changes ◽

Limited Impact ◽

Ethical Approaches ◽

Medical Role ◽

The Impact

Several philosophers have developed accounts of virtue ethics that are more empirically informed than previous versions of this approach; however, such accounts have had only a limited impact on virtue ethical approaches to medical ethics. This chapter demonstrates how empirical research can help in the development of a strong evidence-based moral psychology of medical virtue. It draws out some general desiderata for an adequate moral psychology of medical virtue, and shows how empirical research is crucial for devising well-grounded accounts of medical role virtues, such as medical beneficence and medical courage. It also explains how research into the impact of policy changes on medical practice and doctors’ medical virtues can help with deriving defensible policy applications from medical virtue ethics.

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A MEDICAL ROLE FOR THE NEW UNIVERSITIES

The Lancet ◽

10.1016/s0140-6736(63)90825-0 ◽

1963 ◽

Vol 282 (7318) ◽

pp. 1167-1168

Author(s):

PaulJ. Cannon

Keyword(s):

Medical Role

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Call for greater medical role

Nursing Standard ◽

10.7748/ns.14.2.8.s21 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 8-8

Keyword(s):

Medical Role

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Health and Sexuality

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199546497.013.0028 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Gayle Davis

Keyword(s):

Female Sexuality ◽

Western Society ◽

Science And Society ◽

Western History ◽

Political Issues ◽

Sexually Transmitted ◽

Sexual Science ◽

Historical Relationship ◽

Medical Role ◽

Male Sexualities

The concept of sexuality is being deployed as a prism through which a rich range of social, cultural, and political issues can be explored. This article considers the ways in which female and male sexualities have been constructed and problematized in modern Western history. The medical role is stressed, bearing in mind the ambivalent historical relationship that has existed between physicians, sexual science, and society. With reference to the ‘double standard’, this article shows how female sexuality has been particularly prone to pathologization and psychiatrization when believed to drift from the marital or reproductive ideal. Social and political concerns surrounding sexually transmitted diseases are discussed as they are seen to both reflect and reinforce society's most fundamental assumptions and fears surrounding sexuality and disease. The questions that this article seeks to answer are arguably of increasing relevance to modern Western society.

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Expertise in French health forums

Health Informatics Journal ◽

10.1177/1460458216682356 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 17-26 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Amine Abdaoui ◽

Jérôme Azé ◽

Sandra Bringay ◽

Natalia Grabar ◽

Pascal Poncelet

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Random Forest ◽

Text Categorization ◽

Random Forest Classifier ◽

Classification Models ◽

High Quality ◽

Categorization Task ◽

Medical Role

More and more health websites hire medical experts (physicians, medical students, experienced volunteers, etc.) and indicate explicitly their medical role in order to notify that they provide high-quality answers. However, medical experts may participate in forum discussions even when their role is not officially indicated. Detecting posts written by medical experts facilitates the quick access to posts that have more chances of being correct and informative. The main objective of this work is to learn classification models that can be used to detect posts written by medical experts in any health forum discussions. Two French health forums have been used to discover the best features and methods for this text categorization task. The obtained results confirm that models learned on appropriate websites may be used efficiently on other websites (more than 98% of F1-measure has been obtained using a Random Forest classifier). A study of misclassified posts highlights the participation of medical experts in forum discussions even if their role is not explicitly indicated.

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