Matters of Fact (RLE Social Theory): A Sociological Inquiry (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory) - Tapa blanda

Raffel, Stanley

 
9781138995710: Matters of Fact (RLE Social Theory): A Sociological Inquiry (Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory)
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ISBN 10: 1138995711 ISBN 13: 9781138995710
Editorial: Routledge, 2017

Sinopsis

Facts may seem to be independent, but in this study Stanley Raffle looks at them as expressions of commitment. Medical records, he believes, furnish a principal example of the actively oriented character of the factual commitment, and he draws on his experience of research among the records of a large modern hospital to demonstrate this. He describes how records are produced and reorganized as records, and discusses the grounds which provide for all the features of the records. He looks at the act of ‘observation’ in many apparently and concretely different places, and analyses the activity of noticing, viewing, recording a spectacle, where what is observed supposedly remains untouched by the observing. Dr Raffel goes on to show that observation, events, records and criteria of assessment such as reliability and completeness lose their status as unexplicated verities and become, instead, decisive and consequential courses of action. He points out, too, that the Socratic dialogues exemplify an orientation to commitment that even medical records, paradoxically, require if they are to be the matters of fact that they are.

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Routledge
Año de publicación
2017
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ISBN 10 
1138995711
ISBN 13 
9781138995710
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