Humanities

Postmodernism

A late 20th-century philosophical approach or style of cultural analysis that seeks to reveal the cultural or social construction of concepts conventionally assumed to be natural or universal. (from E.R. DuBose, The Illusion of Trust: Toward a Medical Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age, Kluwer, 1995)

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A late 20th-century philosophical approach or style of cultural analysis that seeks to reveal the cultural or social construction of concepts conventionally assumed to be natural or universal. (from E.R. DuBose, The Illusion of Trust: Toward a Medical Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age, Kluwer, 1995)

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2003; use PHILOSOPHY 2002

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  • Philosophy (1993-2002)

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  1. National Library of Medicine. Postmodernism. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D033302. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D033302
  2. Postmodernism. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism
  3. Postmodernism. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47783