“Are We Talking About the Same Person Here?”

Health System Resilience: What Are We Talking About? A Scoping Review Mapping Characteristics and Keywords

Background Health systems are based on 6 functions that need to work together at all times to effectively deliver safe and quality health services. These functions are vulnerable to shocks and changes; if a health system is unable to withstand the pressure from a shock, it may cease to function or collapse. The concept of resilience has been introduced with the goal of strengthening healt...

Whose Art Are We Talking About?

Jeannette Pols and Tamar Sharon kindly reviewed my case study of the art of living with technology as an engagement with technomoral change. I am indebted to them for their careful reading and critical suggestions to further elaborate the project. In my response I focus on the question whose art we are talking about, while further elucidating the reflexivity addressed in my essay. I conclude wi...

"Sudden death"--what are we talking about?

Sentiment Analysis - What are we talking about?

Automatic affect detection and classification from text is a complex task in Natural Language Processing , whose tackling requires not only the use of established methods in the field, but also the use of knowledge extracted from theories in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Social Psychology or Neuropsy-chology. For the past decade, there has been a large amount of research done in the field. Nev...

Shared decision making in the medical encounter: are we all talking about the same thing?

OBJECTIVE This article aims to explore 1) whether after all the research done on shared decision making (SDM) in the medical encounter, a clear definition (or definitions) of SDM exists; 2) whether authors provide a definition of SDM when they use the term; 3) and whether authors are consistent, throughout a given paper, with respect to the research described and the definition they propose or ...