Nothing but the truth.
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Animal Testing Alternatives↗
Biomedical subjects
N Thorogood
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Questioning science: how knowledge is socially constructed.
This paper argues that 'science' does not tell us 'the truth' but is simply one explanatory framework (of potentially many explanations) for understanding the world. Scientific fact is not a given, located somewhere 'out there' waiting to be discovered. Rather as a set of ideas, which offer to explain the world, scientific knowledge is produced by people and does not exist separately from them. 'Science' cannot pre-exist the social world in which it is produced. It follows that 'scientific research' is equally a product of social forces and cannot be epistemologically separate and 'objective' either. However, the concept of 'scientific research' as 'objective' is so taken for granted in the discipline of dentistry (and elsewhere) that those involved barely see it as a process at all. This paper seeks to make apparent these processes and the values implicit in them.
Humans↗
Murder and cover up could explain the Florida AIDS mystery.
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
Measuring health behaviours.
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Health Behavior↗
'London dentist in HIV scare': HIV and dentistry in popular discourse.
This is a qualitative analysis of the non-structured responses to a survey (see 'Notes') which elicited people's attitudes towards being treated by HIV-positive dentists. These findings are discussed in terms of a sociology of knowledge, that is, an understanding of how individuals come to believe what they do. It uses the concept of 'public' and 'private' accounts to explore some of the themes which emerged.
Dentist-Patient Relations↗
Public perceptions of the funding of NHS dental services.
A survey was carried out of 102 members of the general public, asking for their views of the recent changes in the government funding of NHS dentistry. Approximately 80% of those surveyed had heard about the changes. The majority thought that the implications of the change would be a rise in costs to patients and a fall in the number of NHS dentists.
Adolescent↗