Contemporizing Tribal and Indigenous Medical Knowledge: An Indian Perspective

Abstract:The developers of reviewing systems that rely on computer-based patient-record systems as a source of data need to model reviewing knowledge and medical knowledge. We simulate how the same medical knowledge could be entered in four different systems: CARE, the Arden syntax, Essential-attending and HyperCritic. We subsequently analyze how the original knowledge is represented in the symbols or syntax used by these systems. We conclude that these systems provide different alternatives in dealing with the vocabulary provided by the computer-based patient records. In addition, the use of computer-based patient records for review poses new challenges for the content of that record: to facilitate review, the reasoning of the physician needs to be captured in addition to the actions of the physician.

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Methodology of ECG Interpretation in the Padova Program

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1634804 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 29 (04) ◽

pp. 386-392 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

R. Degani ◽

G. Bortolan

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Medical School ◽

Fuzzy Set ◽

Medical Knowledge ◽

Main Aspect ◽

Measurement Evaluation ◽

Possibility Distributions ◽

Linguistic Decision Making ◽

The University ◽

Ecg Interpretation

AbstractThe main lines ofthe program designed for the interpretation of ECGs, developed in Padova by LADSEB-CNR with the cooperation of the Medical School of the University of Padova are described. In particular, the strategies used for (i) morphology recognition, (ii) measurement evaluation, and (iii) linguistic decision making are illustrated. The main aspect which discerns this program in comparison with other approaches to computerized electrocardiography is its ability of managing the imprecision in both the measurements and the medical knowledge through the use of fuzzy-set methodologies. So-called possibility distributions are used to represent ill-defined parameters as well as threshold limits for diagnostic criteria. In this way, smooth conclusions are derived when the evidence does not support a crisp decision. The influence of the CSE project on the evolution of the Padova program is illustrated.

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John Keats and Indian Medicine

Romanticism ◽

10.3366/rom.2016.0271 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 157-166

Author(s):

Nikki Hessell

Keyword(s):

Medical Knowledge ◽

John Keats ◽

Specific Response ◽

Medical Studies ◽

Sources Of Information ◽

Medical Practices ◽

Traditional Medicines ◽

Medical Imagery ◽

Indian Medicine ◽

The Impact

John Keats's medical studies at Guy's Hospital coincided with a boom in interest in both the traditional medicines of the sub-continent and the experiences of British doctors and patients in India. Despite extensive scholarship on the impact of Keats's medical knowledge on his poetry, little consideration has been given to Keats's exposure to Indian medicine. The poetry that followed his time at Guy's contains numerous references to the contemporary state of knowledge about India and its medical practices, both past and present. This essay focuses on Isabella and considers the major sources of information about Indian medicine in the Regency. It proposes that some of Keats's medical imagery might be read as a specific response to the debates about medicine in the sub-continent.

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