It is where patients' stories morph into bytes of data; the particular becomes generalised; the complex is made discrete, simple and manageable and uncertainty becomes categorised and contained.
It determines their rights and obligations to each other and sometimes to third (non-state) parties.43 Its can be created through treaties between states or arise through a practice that has become generalised across both time and geography (i.e. customary law).44 The application of rules of international law to crisis communications of the state is not always evident.
Patients' stories morphed into data bytes; the particular became generalised; the complex was made discrete, simple and manageable; and uncertainty became categorised and contained.
And this could become generalised: we may have created a technology that – however good it is at recommending films you might like – may actually morph into a powerful amplifier of social, economic and cultural inequalities.
By contrast, as the dispute over DP World showed, conflicts over one investment can rapidly become generalised to others either directly or through bodies like the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which weighs up the implications of takeovers on national security.
Now obviously, the aim of science is to come up with answers to questions that become generalised truths, but psychology is a domain in which it is fiendishly hard to establish them.
However, current practices relating to professional 'duty of care' have become generalised from health professionals undertaking health services research to all researchers undertaking any kind of research.
HIV prevention in the context of female sex work continues to be a high priority globally, particularly in settings where heterosexual contact is the main transmission mode, but the epidemic has yet to become generalised [ 2- 4].
You show them things and those things get generalised and those generalisations become the software – you don't actually write the software, not entirely.
