Mapping out epistemic justice in the clinical space: using narrative techniques to affirm patients as knowers

Abstract Epistemic injustice sits at the intersection of ethics, epistemology, and social justice.Generally, this philosophical term describes when a person is wrongfully discredited as a knower; and within the clinical space, epistemic injustice is the underlying reason that some patient testimonies are valued above others.The following essay seek

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Superior articular process cross-sectional area is a new sensitive parameter for the diagnosis of lumbar central canal spinal stenosis

Sang Joon An,1 Jong-Uk Mun,2 Keum Nae Kang,3 Young Uk Kim4 1Department of Neurology, Catholic Kwandong University of Korea College of Medicine, International St Mary’s Hospital, Incheon, Korea; 2Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Changwon Gyeongsang National University Hospital, Changwon, Korea; 3Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

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Eigen decomposition expedites longitudinal genome-wide association studies for milk production traits in Chinese Holstein

Abstract Background Pseudo-phenotypes, such as 305-day yields, estimated breeding values or deregressed proofs, are usually used as response variables for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of milk production traits in dairy cattle.Computational inefficiency challenges the direct use of test-day records for longitudinal GWAS with large datasets

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