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Medical topics and style from 1500 to 2018

Schneider, Gerold (2022). Medical topics and style from 1500 to 2018. In: Hiltunen, Turo; Taavitsainen, Irma. Corpus pragmatic studies on the history of medical discourse. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 49-78.

Abstract

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 that medical discourse has undergone radical changes and that data-driven methods reflect these changes and offer an unprecedented overview. We also critically discuss shortcomings of our data and methods.

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Item Type:Book Section, refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > English Department
06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Computational Linguistics
08 Research Priority Programs > Digital Society Initiative
06 Faculty of Arts > Zurich Center for Linguistics
08 Research Priority Programs > Digital Religion(s)
06 Faculty of Arts > Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRI)
Dewey Decimal Classification:820 English & Old English literatures
Scopus Subject Areas:Social Sciences & Humanities > Language and Linguistics
Social Sciences & Humanities > Linguistics and Language
Language:English
Date:2022
Deposited On:10 Feb 2023 10:49
Last Modified:21 Sep 2024 03:38
Publisher:Benjamins
ISBN:9789027211101
OA Status:Closed
Publisher DOI:https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.330.03sch
Related URLs:https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.330 (Publisher)

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