Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics

Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices Eivind Engebretsen and Mona Baker Cambridge University Press, in press/2022 Click here to access a full copy of Chapter 1 plus excerpts from all other chapters.   This book interrogates the assumption that evidence means the same thing to different constituencies and in different contexts by outlining a more nuanced and socially

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From text to data: Mediality in corpus-based translation studies

Jan Buts & Henry Jones MonTI: Monografías de Traducción e Interpretación URI: http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/115357 Abstract This paper seeks to promote deeper reflection within the field of corpus-based translation studies (CTS) regarding the digital tools by means of which research in this discipline proceeds. It explicates a range of possibilities and constraints brought to the analysis of translated texts by the keyword

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Epistemologies of evidence-based medicine: A plea for corpus-based conceptual research in the medical humanities

Jan Buts, Mona Baker, Saturnino Luz, & Eivind Engebretsen Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy OPEN ACCESS DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-021-10027-2 Abstract Evidence-based medicine has been the subject of much controversy within and outside the field of medicine, with its detractors characterizing it as reductionist and authoritarian, and its proponents rejecting such characterization as a caricature of the actual practice. At the heart

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Phobia: A corpus study of political diagnostics

Jan Buts Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Volume 7, Article number: 101 OPEN ACCESS DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00593-w Abstract This article is a rhetorical corpus study of the use of -phobia in online alternative media. The term phobia is used in the psychiatric domain to refer to a range of anxiety disorders, but is now also commonly used to identify social tensions.

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New Research Network Twitter

The Genealogies of Knowledge project has come to the end of its funded period. Going forward, the team continues to extend its activities through a dedicated Research Network. As part of this development, we have set up a new Twitter account. The old project account will become inactive, so please follow the new page if you would like to remain

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