Kata kunci: interaksi dokter-penderita, pola tutur, strategi kesantunan, wacana kedokteran Penerapan strategi kesantunan dalam komunikasi antara dokter dan penderita diperlukan karena mempunyai pengaruh positif dalam interaksi dokter dan penderita. Bukti menunjukkan bahwa penera…
Applying data mining techniques on medical databases which contain un-structured and semi-structured data is a challenging task. It is not only due to the complexity of such databases but also due to the characteristics of the medical domain. This thesis describes how multiple l…
This dissertation explores how power and personhood are constructed within complaint interactions and lament performances. I describe how ideologies of language are brought to bear in these events. During fieldwork in Matlab, Bangladesh I participated in the daily life of an ext…
By analyzing language of ritual and memory in novels by George Eliot, Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf and in medical writings concerning the etiology and treatment of shell shock, the dissertation traces the convergence of the nostos narrative and the twentieth-century tale of t…
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of how end-of-life decisions are made in Jerusalem, Israel. The primary focus of my study is what factors have the greatest influence on how these decisions are made. What cultural beliefs and values are involved, and how did they come …
This dissertation utilizes historical methods and archival resources to examine the history of women in osteopathic medical schools from the 1890s to 1950. I focus on five of the main osteopathic schools: ATSU in Kirksville, MO (formerly the American School of Osteopathy), Midwe…