Diagnostic knowing in general practice: interpretative action and reflexivity

Diagnostic problems in general practice.

T' HE idea of this study originated from the establishment of a 1 diagnostic centre in Edinburgh in 1959. Aware that various aspects of general practice are increasingly the subject of discussion and argument but less frequently critically examined, we decided to study the records of 200 patients that one of us, a general practitioner, had examined at the Family Doctor Centre in Edinburgh. Thes...

Rectal bleeding and colorectal cancer in general practice: diagnostic study.

A multifactorial intervention to reduce the risk of falling among elderly people living in the community. Incidence of and risk factors for falls and injurious falls among the community-dwelling elderly. development of a short generic version of the sickness impact profile. The sickness impact profile: SIP68, a short generic version; first evaluation of the reliability and reproducibility. pred...

Reflexivity and Narratives in Action Research: A Discursive Approach

The paper offers an analysis of how narratives may be reflexively used at different stages of the research process as a tool to access the interpretative frameworks that actors use to construct their accounts of events and to make sense of their action. Inter-subjectivity is a determinant of the action research process as it is in the interactions between participants (professional researchers ...

Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics: Exploring Discourse in Context and in Action

Goffman, Action, and Risk Society: Aesthetic Reflexivity in Late Modernity

When I decided to write about edgework over twenty-five years ago, I had no idea that I had put myself on a pathway of sustained engagement with one of the most important sociologists of the twentieth century. As an academic sociologist in the early stages of my career, I felt that I had a good general understanding of Erving Goffman’s most important ideas and a proper appreciation of his uniqu...