considering subject positions with biesta

Personality disorders: illegitimate subject positions.

The diagnosis of personality disorder is common in mental health nurse settings and is a term often used without critical consideration. In clinical practice, the term personality disorder has pejorative connotations, which arise out of the way in which these behaviours are constructed as behavioural rather than psychiatric. The discursive construction of categories of personality disorder are ...

Discourse Effects on Subject Positions

Shifting Subject Positions Experts and Lay People in Public Dialogue

Public dialogue about science, technology and medicine is an established part of the activities of a range of charities, private corporations, governmental departments and scientific institutions. However, the extent to which these activities challenge or bridge the lay–expert divide is questionable. Expertise is contested, by the public and the community of scholars who study and/or facilitate...

A Method for Assessment of Segmentation Success Considering Uncertainty in the Edge Positions

A method for segmentation assessment is proposed. The technique is based on a comparison of the segmentation produced by an algorithm with an ideal segmentation. The procedure to obtain the ideal segmentation is described in detail. Uncertainty regarding the edge positions is accounted for in the discrepancy calculation of each edge using fuzzy reasoning. The uncertaintymeasurement consists of ...

Clausal architecture and subject positions: impersonal constructions in the Germanic languages