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Medical topics and style from 1500 to 2018

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2022
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Schneider, G. (2022). Medical topics and style from 1500 to 2018. In T. Hiltunen & I. Taavitsainen (Eds.), Corpus pragmatic studies on the history of medical discourse (pp. 49–78). Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.330.03sch

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This chapter investigates changes in medical topics, style and language across 500 years, from 1500 to 2018. To do so, we employ data-driven methods of Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities: document classification, topic modelling, and automatically constructed conceptual maps. We trace changes from traditional thinking in the scholastic period to empirical methods, professionalised medicine, and finally the increasing importance of data, statis- tics and clinical studies, away from symptom-centred medicine. We conclude th

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  • Schneider, Gerold
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  • Hiltunen, Turo
  • Taavitsainen, Irma

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Corpus pragmatic studies on the history of medical discourse

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Amsterdam

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49

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78

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2022

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9789027211101

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Schneider, G. (2022). Medical topics and style from 1500 to 2018. In T. Hiltunen & I. Taavitsainen (Eds.), Corpus pragmatic studies on the history of medical discourse (pp. 49–78). Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.330.03sch

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