(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.
Psychologist
Definition:
(n.) One who is versed in, devoted to, psychology.
Example Sentences:
(1) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
(2) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(3) This "gender identity movement" has brought together such unlikely collaborators as surgeons, endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, gynecologists, and research specialists into a mutually rewarding arena.
(4) Contrary to the intentions of the devisers of this scale, it has been found that, significantly different assessments may result when the same patient is rated by various groups (psychiatrists, psychologists, students and psychiatric nurses).
(5) But leading British doctors Sarah Creighton , consultant gynaecologist at the private Portland Hospital, Susan Bewley , consultant obstetrician at St Thomas's and Lih-Mei Liao , clinical psychologist in women's health at University College Hospital then wrote to the journal countering that his clitoral restoration claims were "anatomically impossible".
(6) This article examines AIDS- and HIV-related concerns in women with a focus on the personal dilemmas for the practicing psychologist, problems in health behavior advocacy, and methods and pitfalls in modifying sexual behaviors.
(7) Yury Bubeyev, the chief psychologist on the project, said his 10-person team noted no serious conflicts during the mission.
(8) In this investigation, reanalysis of responses to case vignettes obtained from 436 psychologists, psychiatrists, and internists revealed that on the issue of confidentiality management, these health care providers discriminate among cases involving: Premeditated harm to others, socially irresponsible acts with possible dire consequences to self or others, and minor theft.
(9) Working on a special alcoholism treatment unit did not alter the perceptions of psychiatrists, psychologists and nursing assistants.
(10) These issues relate directly to the question of "prescribing privileges" for psychologists.
(11) Studies show that professionals often fail to reach reliable or valid conclusions and that the accuracy of their judgements does not necessarily surpass that of laypersons, thus raising substantial doubt that psychologists or psychiatrists meet legal standards for expertise.
(12) Chief among them is Robert Cialdini, an American academic psychologist who covers much the same ground, but is especially interested in how governments persuade people.
(13) In the aftermath of that war, Hasan Zeyada, a psychologist with the GCMHP, told the Guardian : "The majority of children suffer many psychological and social consequences.
(14) To assess the effect, if any, of the therapy, two psychological rating scales devised specially for demented patients, were established by the team of psychologists at the Grenoble Teaching Hospital.
(15) The authors present questionnaire data from 509 psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers on their personal treatment experiences.
(16) Another challenge is combining technology with the research carried out by the project's psychologists.
(17) A psychologist reviewed them and rated the psychological fitness of the couple for participation in the program.
(18) We noted that cognitive psychologists could, but usually do not, provide behaviorally and environmentally based "operational definitions" for many of the mentalistic-sounding terms that they introduce into the psychological language.
(19) Psychologists estimated "true IQs" or "effective intelligence" from WISC profiles that varied for ethnicity (black, Mexican-American, or white), social class (lower or middle), profile (three scatter patterns), and direction of Verbal-Performance Scale discrepancy.
(20) The emphasis is put on the emotional problems which had been elicited among the hospital staffs; nurses, psychologists, and social workers.