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Open AccessAgainst Personalised Learning
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Understanding and Responding to the Needs of Older Women Who Have Experienced Mistreatment
Few scientific studies present gender-based analyses on the subject of mistreatment experienced by older women. Nevertheless, women who have lived through such a situation can suffer serious consequences in th...
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The gift in A&E: re-framing the medical case presentation through Mauss
Case presentations have totemic significance in medical sociology, in which they are analysed as emblematic of medical professional culture. This article makes a case for conceptualising these exchanges in ter...
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Learning from failure: Exploring the psychodynamics of work in a clinical simulation centre
We analyse an intervention in a UK teaching hospital designed to enable ‘learning from failure’, using concepts from the Dejourian school of the psychodynamics of work. Whilst much of the English-language lite...
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Exploration: Wigs, Brown Sauce and Theatrical Dames—Clinical Simulation as Play
This exploration examines how clinical simulation, performed in hospitals as a form of training, can be understood as play, involving creating and maintaining fictions, role-playing theatrical characters and e...
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Playing at Doctors and Nurses: Technology, Play and Medical Simulation
In this we discuss how concepts of and interactive story-telling can be used to make sense of simulation-based . We argue that role-playing clinical situations affects how such situations can be made sens...
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Fantasies of medical reality: An observational study of simulation-based medical education
Medicine is increasingly taught in immersive simulated environments to supplement the apprenticeship model of work-based learning. Clinical research on this educational practice focuses on its realism, defined...
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Open AccessReconsidering ‘ethics’ and ‘quality’ in healthcare research: the case for an iterative ethical paradigm
UK-based research conducted within a healthcare setting generally requires approval from the National Research Ethics Service. Research ethics committees are required to assess a vast range of proposals, diffe...
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Review of Charles Bingham and Gert Biesta, Jacques Rancière: Education, Truth, Emancipation
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Producing Gender in Digital Interactions: What Young People Set Out to Achieve through Computer Game Design
There has been much interest in the role that video games play in the process of socialization and the development of subjectivity in contemporary culture (see chapters one, two, and nine in this volume; Linder.....
