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In the practice of clinical psychiatry, an essential feature of praxis is the accumulation of knowledge about patients through the interpretation of their presentations, both aural and behavioral. It is upon the knowledge base derived from a variety of sources, embodied and disembodied (e.g., written records) that diagnostic, managerial and dispositional decisions are based. Because the confrontation of individual patients, prospective patients and physicians (and physicians in training) may be seen as a fundamentally hermeneutic interaction, it can be suggested that biomedical clinical “knowledge” is but interpretation, interpretation of symbols and signs in terms of particular, and particularistic interpretive schemata (see Good and Good 1981).
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Gaines, A.D. (1982). Knowledge and Practice: Anthropological Ideas and Psychiatric Practice. In: Chrisman, N.J., Maretzki, T.W. (eds) Clinically Applied Anthropology. Culture, Illness, and Healing, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9180-0_9
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