What's the difference between historiography and practice?

Historiography


Definition:

  • (n.) The art of employment of an historiographer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The explanation for the explosion of science in the 17th century lies in history and medical historiography.
  • (2) Cameron studiously avoided discussing the morality of the Great War, or the long Conservative historiography, including Alan Clark, Niall Ferguson and Andrew Roberts, that has condemned the war as a catastrophic failure by a political and military elite – the conscripted lions notoriously led by the callous and unthinking donkeys dining behind the trenches.
  • (3) Today historiography (the writing of stories) presented as nothing but a search for truth merits the charge of naiveté.
  • (4) This paper seeks to fill a gap in nursing historiography by presenting an overview of the historical presence of Jewish women in nursing.
  • (5) These works are reminders that Hobsbawm was both a bridge between European and British historiography and a forerunner of the notable rise of the study of social history in post-1968 Britain.
  • (6) Since 1980 a 'new' history of nursing has been emerging, one that attempts to address serious problems within nursing historiography such as the subordination of nursing history to medical history.
  • (7) The author argues the proposition that historiography can only fulfill its function of giving sense to life if it simultaneously admits its deconstruction, its counter-sense.
  • (8) The author uses hitherto unpublished facts to present a detailed picture of the professional work and private life of Friedrich L. Urban, making a contribution to the historiography of veterinary surgery.
  • (9) The medical historiography considers him one of the outstanding representatives of the 18th century, chemistry calls him the ancestor of photography.
  • (10) In official Soviet historiography, the city could not be surrendered because Hitler planned total destruction of its beautiful buildings – and its residents.
  • (11) Let them tell us “how it really was”, in the famous phrase of the father of modern historiography, Leopold von Ranke (who taught at Berlin’s leading university, now called the Humboldt University, which itself endured decades behind the Wall).
  • (12) An issue in the historiography of nursing is whether nurses desired baccalaureate education for their occupation, and were unable to accomplish this, or whether they preferred diploma schools.
  • (13) In the context of a world-wide coverage of contemporary historiography of psychology, a descriptive account is presented of major recent events and of publications, grouped into five categories: original works, new editions, editions of the classics of science, readings, and translations.
  • (14) According to the author, it seems that, apart from the psychoanalytical concept, the phenomenological, descriptive-analytical procedure ist particularly suitable for the presentation of the mental aspect in the historiography.
  • (15) A search for consensus about the methodology of discovery among physicians and physiologists led the author to identify a crucial anomaly of medical historiography: in general, physicians stress the significance of clinicopathologic method, while physiologists emphasize the experimental.
  • (16) In the evolution of mankind and therefore in the veterinary historiography as well you can find the belief in magic and in magic medicine.
  • (17) Viewed by some as the last word in historiography and by others as the latest word in histrionics, it is in fact nothing more and nothing less than a technique with many worthwhile applications if handled with reason and proper preparation.A brief historical review of the oral history movement is followed by a description of the current efforts in oral history in the life sciences.
  • (18) The same is true of the radically opposite positions of modern American scientific historiography.
  • (19) This is neither empathy nor responsible historiography; this is math.
  • (20) A review of the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences revealed that all of the author's opinions on historiography have been well represented.

Practice


Definition:

  • (n.) Frequently repeated or customary action; habitual performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise.
  • (n.) Customary or constant use; state of being used.
  • (n.) Skill or dexterity acquired by use; expertness.
  • (n.) Actual performance; application of knowledge; -- opposed to theory.
  • (n.) Systematic exercise for instruction or discipline; as, the troops are called out for practice; she neglected practice in music.
  • (n.) Application of science to the wants of men; the exercise of any profession; professional business; as, the practice of medicine or law; a large or lucrative practice.
  • (n.) Skillful or artful management; dexterity in contrivance or the use of means; art; stratagem; artifice; plot; -- usually in a bad sense.
  • (n.) A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business.
  • (n.) The form, manner, and order of conducting and carrying on suits and prosecutions through their various stages, according to the principles of law and the rules laid down by the courts.
  • (v. t.) To do or perform frequently, customarily, or habitually; to make a practice of; as, to practice gaming.
  • (v. t.) To exercise, or follow, as a profession, trade, art, etc., as, to practice law or medicine.
  • (v. t.) To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.
  • (v. t.) To put into practice; to carry out; to act upon; to commit; to execute; to do.
  • (v. t.) To make use of; to employ.
  • (v. t.) To teach or accustom by practice; to train.
  • (v. i.) To perform certain acts frequently or customarily, either for instruction, profit, or amusement; as, to practice with the broadsword or with the rifle; to practice on the piano.
  • (v. i.) To learn by practice; to form a habit.
  • (v. i.) To try artifices or stratagems.
  • (v. i.) To apply theoretical science or knowledge, esp. by way of experiment; to exercise or pursue an employment or profession, esp. that of medicine or of law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
  • (2) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (3) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
  • (4) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (5) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
  • (6) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
  • (7) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
  • (8) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
  • (9) The first phase evaluated cytologic and colposcopic diagnoses in 962 consecutive patients in a community practice.
  • (10) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (11) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
  • (12) Practical examples are given of the concepts presented using data from several drugs.
  • (13) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (14) Beyond this, physicians learn from specific problems that arise in practice.
  • (15) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
  • (16) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
  • (17) The author's experience in private psychoanalytic practice and in Philadelphia's rape victim clinics indicates that these assaults occur frequently.
  • (18) Single dose therapy is recommended as the treatment of choice for bacterial cystitis in domiciliary practice.
  • (19) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
  • (20) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.