HLTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Knowledge Power
12 Oct 2017
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Criticality: reference to higher order cognitive skills used to critically appraise arguments and evidence and a particular approach to knowledge action. Interest in context, power, social relations and fairness even when these ideas and dialogues are challenging or uncomfortable. Problematize: ideas, evidence, conclusions, perspectives and origins: committed to: humility, fairness, collaboration, reflexivity, creative: encourages thinking outside of box. Knowledge power nexus and epistemic communities: committed to rigorous application of theory to practice. Value and purpose: social justice, solidarity and social transformation. Epistemic community: network of people with recognized expertise who possess a shared set of principled beliefs, common practices and a conviction that human welfare will be enhanced as a consequence. Health sciences: a collection of disciplines that support and constitute medicine: disciplines based around occupational categories, disciplines based around medical categories and basic science, disciplines based around clinical specialties. Interdiscplinary: involves several disciplines ; theories and methods from each inform the others: researchers share goals.
