Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is our first regular issue as the relatively new Co-Editors-in-Chief of the Bulletin, and we are extremely pleased to present a wide-ranging collection of articles.While each paper offers a unique perspective on its own particular topic, jointly they bring together interesting and important themes in the social and cultural history of medicine.Several of the articles emphasize the importance of examining the intersection of race, class, and gender in both forming professional identity and in carving out realms of practice through treatment, experimentation, and research.Christopher David O'Shea shows the intimate links between medical doctors' efforts to find treatments for prostate disorders and broader social discourses about male sexuality.Micheline Louis-Courvoisier examines the language of early medical ethics texts to explore the tensions physicians encountered in establishing a stable professional identity.We see in Heather Stanley's article how male physicians practising midwifery drew upon gendered language to validate their identity as professionals and to work towards ensuring that childbirth became a closed market.Next, David Lethbridge examines the overlooked research work Norman Bethune undertook on cadavers during the Spanish Civil War in order to perfect the art of transfusing blood.Another significant theme that arises in this issue deals with the excavation of voices.Drawing on interviews, patient and medical records, and correspondence, the authors endeavour to make heard the stories and experiences of individuals involved in periods of social transformation.Jackie Duffin and Meryn Stuart investigate the largely neglected lives and work of female medical doctors who began their careers in the decades preceding second wave feminism.This piece seeks to challenge the recent and disconcerting sexist statement by the President of the Canadian Medical Association that the "early feminization of medicine contributed to the doctor shortage in Canada."In turn, using interviews with psychiatric nurses, Chris Dooley offers an alternative perspective and a reflective voice to those individuals who worked with the mentally ill during the 1960 and 1970s, when Canada's mental health apparatus underwent significant change.Marie-Claude Thifault and Isabelle Perreault use letters between psychiatrists and families of mentally ill patients confined at the Saint-Jean-de-Dieu hospital in Montreal to argue that a process of social integration or "dehospitalization" was taking place well before the more well-known phase of deinstitutionalization that began in the 1960s.Finally, Shannon Stettner
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.108 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.033 | 0.030 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.054 | 0.034 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".