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The status of medical eponyms: advantages and disadvantages
Tatiana Canzianisubject
medical eponymEnglish for specific purposesMedical discourseSettore L-LIN/12 - Lingua E Traduzione - Lingua Inglesedescription
The aim of this paper is to analyse how physicians use eponyms for naming the evolution of a scientific discovery in order to describe the different features of eponyms. In the first section a brief classification of medical eponym is given, attention is then turned to the main positive and negative aspects of these honorific names in the language of Medicine in a diachronic perspective with linguistic and ethical considerations.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-01-01 |