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Can we Research Suffering?

2001· article· en· 276 citations· W2114068244 on OpenAlex· 10.1177/104973201129119154

Why is this work in the frame?

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

Canadian affiliationAn author listed a Canadian institution. This is the only route the usual frame has.

Full frame distilled prediction

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.

Candidate categories
Metaresearch, Science and technology studies, Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categories
Metaresearch, Science and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Domain
Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
Study design
Candidate signal: QualitativeConsensus signal: Qualitative
Genre
Candidate signal: EmpiricalConsensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score
0.814
Threshold uncertainty score
1.000
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.3780.054
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.007
Science and technology studies0.0080.009
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.001

Machine scores (provisional)

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

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.

Opus teacher head0.931
GPT teacher head0.804
Teacher spread
0.126 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

Illness troubles us because it is an occasion of suffering, but research on illness has difficulty conceptualizing suffering--and naturally so because suffering is not a concept but a lived reality that resists articulation. Based on the work of Dorothy Smith, the author argues that the rhetoric of social science inadvertently increases suffering because it attempts to organize local experience within extralocal categories. He concludes with suggestions for changing research practices.

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.

The record

Venue
Qualitative Health Research
Topic
Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Field
Social Sciences
Canadian institutions
University of Calgary
Funders
not available
Keywords
RhetoricArticulation (sociology)SociologyPsychologyQualitative researchEpistemologySocial psychologyPsychotherapistSocial sciencePolitical sciencePhilosophyLawPolitics
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes