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Osteopaths

2025· other· en· W4415735323 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Hans A. Baer

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Health, Illness, Behavior, and Society · 2025
Typeother
Languageen
Field
Topic
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOsteopathyParallelsOsteopathic medicine in the United StatesScope (computer science)Medical practiceScope of practiceAlternative medicine

Abstract

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Abstract Osteopathy was created in the United States during the 1870s by Andrew Taylor Still (1828–1917), a disenchanted regular physician. In the early twentieth century, it began to diffuse to other Anglophone countries, such as Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, and later to other countries, including non‐Western ones. While osteopathy started out as primarily a manual medical system, and remains so in most countries, it evolved during the twentieth century in the United States and some Canadian provinces into osteopathic medicine and surgery, with a scope of practice that parallels allopathic medical practitioners. This entry discusses the profession of osteopathy, including its sociohistorical development, dynamic processes of professionalization, and the conflicts related to professional boundaries that continue to shape its sociological contours in the contemporary health landscape.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.306
Threshold uncertainty score0.000

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.3060.112

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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.266
Teacher spread0.257 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

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

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".

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