The place of human values in the language of science: Kuhn, Saussure, and structuralism

Theoretical Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 345-358

  Psaty, Bruce M ^a   Inui, Thomas S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

epistemology; interpretation; linguistics; logic; methods; paradigm; perception; philosophy of medicine; philosophy of science; structuralism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; LOGIC; MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; SCIENCE;

DISEASE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 19TH CENT.; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, 20TH CENT.; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; SOCIAL VALUES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0026344153     PISSN: 01679902     EISSN: 15731200     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00489893     Document Type: Article

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