His pair of breakthrough novels, "Main Street" (1920) and "Babbitt" (1922), both of which contributed new terms to the American vocabulary of self-comprehension, compose a volume in the Library of America, and the Library plans to include in another volume "Arrowsmith" (1925), "Elmer Gantry" (1927), and "Dodsworth" (1929), the other major novels of Lewis's prodigious decade.
Therefore, this pervasive pre-reflective self-consciousness is not to be understood as complete self-comprehension.
As Merleau-Ponty puts it, our temporal existence is both a condition for and an obstacle to our self-comprehension.
The fact that this progression ends in the attainment of what Hegel refers to as Absolute Knowing, the standpoint from which real philosophy gets done, seems to support the traditionalist reading in which a triumphalist narrative of the growth of western civilization is combined with the theological interpretation of God's self-manifestation and self-comprehension.
There was no difference in self-assessed comprehension of discharge information between the older and younger group.
Two sets of questions were included in the NHRI survey to assess respondents' self-reported comprehension of health information.
To our knowledge, this is the first study that compares self-reported comprehension of health information with an objective measure of health literacy.
Table 1 reports the mean level of self-reported comprehension of health information among men vis-à-vis women, classified by the health literacy level.
The questionnaire covered basic characteristics, self-assessed comprehension of discharge information, ability to recall discharge information, subjective evaluation of the communication, and patient satisfaction with the admission (scale 1 10 with maximum score 10).
Binary yes/no answers were used to evaluate self-assessed comprehension, eg, "did you understand what was wrong with you/your diagnosis?" The same questions reformulated to obtain descriptive answers were compared to the discharge document in order to evaluate correct recall, eg, "write in your own words what was wrong with you/your diagnosis".
