Nominative determinism in hospital medicine

2014/12/19 by R Limb, Charles J. Limb, D Limb · 4 citations
Medicine · Social Sciences · #Medical and Biological Sciences #Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research #Diversity and Career in Medicine #Nominative case #Determinism #Medicine #Linguistics #Philosophy #Epistemology #Verb

paper · doi:10.1308/147363515x14134529299420

published in Bulletin of The Royal College of Surgeons of England 97(1), 24-26 (Royal College of Surgeons of England)

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Abstract

Can our surnames influence our choice of career, and even specialty?

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• Influence of Names on Career Choices in Medicine

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• Nominative determinism [wikipedia]

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