"Postmodernism" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A late 20th-century philosophical approach or style of cultural analysis that seeks to reveal the cultural or social construction of concepts conventionally assumed to be natural or universal. (from E.R. DuBose, The Illusion of Trust: Toward a Medical Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age, Kluwer, 1995)
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D033302
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| MeSH Number(s) |
K01.752.720
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Postmodernism" by people in Profiles.
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The management of instability and incompleteness: clinical ethics and abstract expressionism. J Med Philos. 1997 Feb; 22(1):1-10.