MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort
Record W2096927344 · doi:10.1353/lm.2005.0026

"The Blameless Physician": Narrative and Pain, Sassoon and Rivers

2005· article· en· W2096927344 on OpenAlexaff
Robert Hemmings

Bibliographic record

VenueLiterature and medicine · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicEmpathy and Medical Education
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativeMedicineLiteratureArt

Abstract

fetched live from OpenAlex

Early twentieth-century psychoanalytic encounters were typically mediated through the case study, a kind of "sur-narrative"—one constructed from above and temporally beyond the physician-patient encounter — in which the physician fills in what Freud calls "gaps" and "imperfections" of the patient's own repression-addled narrative. However, there are cases in twentieth-century modernism of patients creating their own sur-narratives, not case studies, but homages, which do not so much fill in the gaps as cover them over with layers of idealized memories of the physician-analyst, layers replete with their own imperfections and gaps. This essay examines Siegfried Sassoon's sur-narratives of his encounter with W.H.R. Rivers, autobiographical poetry and fiction that work to transform Rivers from mere physician into a guiding spiritual presence. But fissures of pain disrupt his sur-narratives and reveal the poet-patient unable to escape his past or accept the spiritual future into which he projects his physician, safely beyond the harsh material conditions of the war-torn modern world.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.821
Threshold uncertainty score0.297

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.271
Teacher spread0.265 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

Quick stats

Citations9
Published2005
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

Explore more

Same venueLiterature and medicineSame topicEmpathy and Medical EducationFrench-language works237,207