The challenge we face is to develop frameworks of understanding that allow us to see pathways of influence from the societal level to individuals and their experience of illness, and to document how the influence flows in both directions – the ways in which the biological experience of disease has social costs.
This painstaking and difficult process eventually enables the ethnographer to tell the story of a group of people with respect, power and a depth of understanding that allows us to better understand the human condition.
For early image theorist, Roland Barthes, it's a two part answer: studium, the quality in a photograph that displays the "given cultural meanings that we understand at once," provides the sort of contextual understanding that allows us to read into the image itself.
As an Army chaplain, he has the awful understanding that comes from having been in combat, an understanding that allows him to help shoulder a soldier's burden.
It's this understanding that allows us to continue to talk about money as if it were a limited resource like bauxite or petroleum, to say "there's just not enough money" to fund social programmes, to speak of the immorality of government debt or of public spending "crowding out" the private sector.
I get the sense that, pulling it off, all the wild and disordered bits of America I've garnered over the years, the sights, the sounds, the feel of it, its very grain -- these clues to a national character divvied up into 50 distinct portions -- will finally come together in a grand flash of understanding that allows me to embrace America in toto and thereby make it mine.
But careful study led to a change in his understanding that allowed him to see that Aristotle was indeed an excellent scientist.
Some scientists believe that these feats suggest the birds have a sophisticated understanding of physical principles an understanding that allows them to solve problems they wouldn't encounter in the real world.
The first task in the TranSTEP group is therefore to bring out the assumptions about the situation, critically reflect on them and agree on a common situation analysis and problem understanding that allows the group to work together.
This breakthrough, which enabled the approval and clinical use of nanoliposomal drugs such as DoxilTM, has not been paralleled by an in-depth understanding that allows predicting loading efficiency of drugs.
