Erschienen in:
19.12.2023 | Invited Commentary
Hypermobility, Trauma, and the Roads That Lead to Rome
verfasst von:
Nitin K. Ahuja
Erschienen in:
Digestive Diseases and Sciences
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Ausgabe 3/2024
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Excerpt
The 1950 film
Rashomon, written and directed by the Japanese
auteur Akira Kurosawa, famously employs a narrative style in which the same story (in this case, a violent encounter on a wooded path between a bandit, a samurai, and his wife) is told in multiple, overlapping, and contradictory ways [
1]. What has since been dubbed the “Rashomon effect” is a narrative tool that can be used to demonstrate the inherent bias of any given perspective on reality. This concept has been invoked in scientific contexts as well in instances when investigators reach differing conclusions by observing the same phenomenon through different theoretical or methodological lenses [
2]. Among complex clinical categories such as functional dyspepsia (FD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), for example, a prism of interpretations can emerge depending on which of their craggy surfaces is turned toward the light. …
