Abstract:In this paper, we present a multidisciplinary project, IMPRESS, which combines the digitization of three major 19th-century Belgian medical journals with a historical research project on the role of ideology in 19th-century Belgian medicine. We focus on the methodological choices that were made and discuss the extent to which text mining has allowed to identify and evaluate expressions of ideology in a corpus of scientific texts. In laying bare the difficulties and outcomes of both the digitization and the dig… Show more
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