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University of WashingtonAlejandro Cerón Office: Denny Hall 417 Office hours: Wed 11 am -1 pm maceron@uw.edu Week 9: Mon, 11/22/2010
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Goal: catching up! Student presentations Karandeep Prehar, Jordan Greco, Anne Weiss Sign Medical Knowledge and Power Video Discussion
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Signified (concept) Signifier (form) Saussure – linguistics, semiology Arbitrariness - conventional Stop Manorexic body Beauty? Disease?
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Interpretant (sense) Object (referent) Representamen (form) Stop Manorexic body Beauty? Disease? Peirce – philosophy, semeiotics (not semiotics) (usually represented as triangle)
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Categorycharacterizationdefinition FirstnessQuality of feelingReference to an abstraction (monadic) SecondnessDyadic relation, reactionReference to a correlate (dyadic) ThirdnessRepresentation, mediationReference to an interpretant (triadic) Interpretant (sense) Object (referent) Representamen (form) Read quote from Valentine Daniel (p. 150), related to pain
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Phen. Category: Every sign: FirstnessSecondnessThirdness Is:Qualisign A quality or possibility Sinsign An actual individual thing, fact, etc. Legisign A norm, habit, rule, law Refers through:Icon Similarity to its object Index Factual connection to its object Symbol Interpretive habit or norm of reference to its object Is interpreted as:Rheme Term-like (relation of quality to its object) Dicisign Proposition-like (relation of fact to its object) Argument Argumentative (relation of habit or law to its object)
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Medical pluralism: The coexistence of multiple medical traditions, or bodies of practice and thought, within the same society. (Janzen 2002) Hierarchy of resort: the conventional pattern of the sequence of different consultations with medical practitioners or therapies in an unfolding case (Janzen 2002) Ayurvedic medicine in India (20min,link)link
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Different traditions Different scientific paradigms (Thomas Kuhn) Episteme What is acceptable from the scientific perspective Not what is possible or true Themes to consider Relation cause-cure Scale, scope and focus of notions of illness and healing Relation between person and illness/cause/cure Classification/labeling Dynamic Reflecting history Nocebo effect
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Sources of coherence Tradition Resource control Sources of control and legitimacy Traditional authority Legal authority Charismatic authority Incorporation of medicine Professionalization Relationship to the state and the market
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