Greenhalgh's 2005 article's own two-part critique of the Dutch-derived model, inside the Kwakernaak-then-Liang passage, is a close conceptual — not verbatim — match for both phrases Clark's essay attributes to her
Immediately after the "little-known Dutch work" footnote that opens the 2005 article's continuous Kwakernaak-then-Liang narrative arc, Greenhalgh gives her own two-part account of what Song Jian's group did to the Kwakernaak–Olsder–Strijbos model. First: "In adapting the Dutch work to the Chinese situation, Song and his team modified it in highly significant, yet unremarked, ways. First, they essentially dropped the social acceptability constraint and assumed, arbitrarily, that Chinese couples would accept a one-child limit" (p. 266). Then, in the same continuous passage: "the scientists could construe hard-to-quantify forces such as peasant reproductive culture, social structure and politics as peripheral matters that did not alter the conclusions reached by the mathematics of control theory. By construing questions of enforcement and human costs as external to the science, the mathematicians were able to promote a radical policy of one child for all as the best and only scientific solution to the problem" (p. 267).
These two sentences are a close conceptual match, feature for feature, to the two phrases A.E. Clark's 2016 essay attributes to Greenhalgh about "the Dutch work": "peripheral matters" / "external to the science" for social and political questions maps onto Clark's "the relegation of social and political questions to the margins," while "dropped the social acceptability constraint" and "modified it in highly significant... ways" maps onto Clark's "the adoption of highly simplifying assumptions or model constraints." The match is conceptual, not verbatim. A full-document re-read this session independently reconfirmed the negative finding already recorded in claim-clark-2016-dutch-work-phrases-absent-from-greenhalgh-2003-and-2005-articles: none of "relegation," "margins," or "simplifying" occurs anywhere in either the 2003 or 2005 article. The importance of reading the whole document, not just re-running the three search terms, is that pp. 266–267 is exactly the passage where a paraphrase-mistaken-for-a-quotation would most plausibly hide — the same footnote 43 whose Dutch authors are identifiable as Olsder and Strijbos. Establishing that the phrases are conceptually present but verbatim absent is what turns an unlocated quotation into a candidate paraphrase, the reading developed in claim-clark-2016-dutch-work-phrases-likely-compression-of-greenhalgh-2005-analysis.
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“In adapting the Dutch work to the Chinese situation, Song and his team modified it in highly significant, yet unremarked, ways. First, they essentially dropped the social acceptability constraint and assumed, arbitrarily, that Chinese couples would accept a one-child limit (p. 266). ... the scientists could construe hard-to-quantify forces such as peasant reproductive culture, social structure and politics as peripheral matters that did not alter the conclusions reached by the mathematics of control theory. By construing questions of enforcement and human costs as external to the science, the mathematicians were able to promote a radical policy of one child for all as the best and only scientific solution to the problem (p. 267).”
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