(n.) That branch of knowledge which has for its subject the characteristics of the human family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Making use of ethnography provides family physicians with a greater array of research methods compatible with clinical practice.
(2) The source and nature of the ethnography of the important eighteenth century thinker Johann Gottfried Herder can in large part be understood through his relationship to his own society and especially through his part in the German cultural nationalist movement of the day.
(3) They also present some of the major conceptual foundations of cultural psychiatry, which include ethnography, emic and etic approaches, the cross-cultural approach, and the study of subjective culture.
(4) This study is an ethnography of the ethics of one pediatric bone marrow transplant team.
(5) It outlines the advantages and limitations of such data sources as surveys, indicators, and ethnography, and briefly explores the work and utility of local, national, and international drug surveillance networks.
(6) Building on this theoretical background, an approach to ethnography is illustrated through an analysis of suffering in Chinese society.
(7) The findings of this analysis lead the author to argue, in contrast with recent ethnographies which treat discourses on emotions as rhetorical strategies rather than as reflections of personal or communal experience, that we need an integrative approach which focuses on the relationship between language and experience, politics and felt emotion.
(8) A longitudinal, clinical ethnography formed the basis of this study.
(9) This paper contrasts ethnography with a randomized clinical trial design addressing the same question.
(10) An overview of the purpose, methodology, strengths, and limitations of ethnography is presented.
(11) These matters concern the epistemological basis of ethnography, and the reliability of ethnographic research methods.
(12) A longitudinal, descriptive ethnography formed the basis of the study described in this article, in which 120 interviews were conducted over a period of 6 months with 13 individuals who had experienced lacunar infarcts of the internal capsule of the brain.
(13) In response to this concern, this study presents a framework of analysis based on ethnography as narrative of the old and the new.
(14) This research uses ethnography and grounded-theory methods to develop a model of recovering alcoholics' goal progression.
(15) Issues in family medicine such as patient compliance, doctor-patient relationships, and patients' subjective experience of illness may be optimally studied with ethnography.
(16) Ethnography is a qualitative research design that has relevance for clinical research in occupational therapy.
(17) Clinical ethnography as an alternative method of studying stroke recovery is described.
(18) Ethnography presents the researcher with a methodology for studying meaning carefully; a process for going beyond what is seen or heard to infer what people know by careful listening and observation of behavior, environment, and context.
(19) Qualitative research methods dominate in the humanities (history, literature), theology, law and some social sciences (ethnography).
(20) Medical anthropologist Daisy Deomampo, who has written an ethnography of surrogate mothers in Mumbai, argues that this image of the “deceitful surrogate” has helped doctors and parents conceal the power imbalance that made foreign surrogacy possible.
Human
Definition:
(a.) Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices.
(n.) A human being.
Example Sentences:
(1) The absolute recoveries of diazepam, nordazepam and flurazepam in human milk were 84, 86 and 92% and in human plasma 97, 89 and 94%, respectively.
(2) Stimulation of human leukocytes with various chemical mediators such as TPA, f-Met-Leu-Phe, LTB4, etc.
(3) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(4) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
(5) By electrophoresis and scanning densitometry, actin was found to constitute about 4% to 6% of the total cellular protein in the human corneal epithelium.
(6) A series of human cDNA clones of various sizes and relative localizations to the mRNA molecule were isolated by using the human p53-H14 (2.35-kilobase) cDNA probe which we previously cloned.
(7) Assessment of the likelihood of replication in humans has included in vitro exposure of human cells to the potential pesticidal agent.
(8) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
(9) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(10) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(11) This bone could not be degraded by human monocytes in vitro as well as control bone (only 54% of control; P less than 0.003).
(12) On the other hand, human IL-9, which is a homologue to murine P40, was cloned from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA isolated from PHA-induced T-cell line (C5MJ2).
(13) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
(14) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
(15) Detergent-solubilized HLA antigens were isolated from a human lymphoblastoid cell using an anti-beta2-microglobulin immunoaffinity column.
(16) We postulate that FAA may affect the human peripheral and mucosal immune system.
(17) The human placental villus tissue contains opioid receptors and peptides.
(18) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(19) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
(20) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.