Medical science stands accused of providing an incomplete understanding of health because it is supposedly founded on linearity, reductionism, and positivism. These criticisms misrepresent the scientific method. The alternatives offered by complexity theory, postmodernism, and qualitative research risk falling into the traps that the scientific method avoids. The hypotheticodeductive model of s...

0039-3 doi:10 E-m So, the further I get with the description of the radical social constructionist programme and a particular version of postmodernism, coupled to the acid tools of critical discourse in the human sciences, themore nervous I get.Like all neuroses,mine is rooted in the problem of metaphor, that is, the problem of the relation of bodies and language. (Donna Haraway, 1991, p. 185, ...

The purpose of the article is to reveal features and trends modern musical performance through prism phenomenon postmodern culture. research methodology. analytical method applied; a systematic enables examination culture as whole; historical cultural analysis, which contributed understanding ways forming developing performance, well essence socio-cultural phenomenon; theoretical generalisation...

In this encyclopedic book entitled (Orientalism, Postmodernism, and Globalism), Brian Turner, the British Marxist philosopher, thinker, sociologist, discusses thoughts of prominent intellectuals modernity postmodernity, and, most famous orientalists in history Orientalism. Turner refutes their opinions regarding role religion societies, ability Islam to be a lever for modernization. After colla...

Post-postmodern authenticity is introduced and used in this conceptual article to characterise a new emergent approach negotiating reality fantasy by tourists through tourism. Alongside modern postmodern approaches, post-postmodern contextualises recent developments within discourse. Modernism involves constructive, objective verisimilitude stances for inauthenticity, including Postmodernism ta...