“I Don’t Think That’s Something I’ve Ever Thought About Really Before”: A Thematic Discursive Analysis of Lay People’s Talk about Legal Gender

What I talk about when I talk about health law.

Some More Thoughts About Thought and Talk:

1. One tenet of Donald Davidson's account of radical interpretation is the interdependence of utterance interpretation and belief ascription. Assigning meanings to a speaker's utterances requires interpreters to make concomitant determinations of their beliefs. But at the same time, one cannot fix the contents of a subject's beliefs without identifying the meanings of their utterances. So belie...

Talk About Rice: A Discursive Approach to Studying Culture

The paper examines the ways in which people talk about others of different culture or ethnic origin. I analyse interview talk of the British W.W.II veterans about their experiences at the prisoners of war camp in Japan and recent activities of reconciliation. Proposed is a discursive approach to the study of culture and cross-cultural communication, in comparison to work in cultural anthropolog...

Let’s talk about genes, and I dont mean trousers: encouraging cancer genetics literacy amongst children

Acquiring genetic literacy is one of the most important things a person can do to promote their own and their family's health. Family history-genetics and the shared environment-is a significant risk factor for cancer as well as other common diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. A good understanding of family health history should increasingly be used to personalise health mess...

Think about Neurobrucellosis, When a Man Cries

Neurobrucellosis (N.B) is a rare and severe form of systemic Brucella infection. We introduced an unusual case that “Psychologic Symptoms” was the most prominent complaints of his family. He was a 50-year-old man who has worked in butchery. His problems had begun 2 months prior to his admission with mood disorders, arthralgia, weakness, headache, and night sweats; he has recurrent crying with n...