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Capsule Summary of Buitron de la Vega et al., “It’s like a mirror image of my illness”. Exploring Patient Perceptions About Illness Using Health Mind Mapping: a Qualitative Study

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 10/2018

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In a classic 1977 article entitled, “From utterance to text: The bias of language in speech and writing”,¹ David Olson traces the gradual transition from spoken to written language starting with the invention of the Greek alphabet and reaching its zenith in the eighteenth century British essayist tradition. Olson argues that the oral tradition, which was the gold standard for trustworthy communication for centuries, was replaced by written texts as the repository and arbiter of truth. For the professions, medicine, the law, and education, this meant a cultural shift from learning by speaking to learning from written texts. …

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Title: Capsule Summary of Buitron de la Vega et al., “It’s like a mirror image of my illness”. Exploring Patient Perceptions About Illness Using Health Mind Mapping: a Qualitative Study
Publication date: 01-10-2018
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 10/2018
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-018-4613-5

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