Tag: biomedical determinism
Left wide awake
This is the transcript of a short film I made in late May 2011 called ‘AWOKEN‘: It forms the summarised reply by me to Wake-up call for British Psychiatry written … Continue reading Left wide awake
ASTROV: scholarship might have to reassess all sorts of certainties
This film is an ‘attack’ on biomedical determinism. To play this film please click here. This film voices others, including: Roy Porter Sylvia Plath Matt Haig Ian Hamilton Finlay Anthony … Continue reading ASTROV: scholarship might have to reassess all sorts of certainties
“I know what it is like to be studied”
A passage from this novel by Hanya Yanagihara:
‘Let it be boldly admitted’
I recently read Father and Son by Edmund Gosse. Edmund Gosse wrote this book in 1907 and it describes his early years in an exceptionally devout [stifling] Plymouth Brethren home … Continue reading ‘Let it be boldly admitted’
do more than spell the word
I have been reading ‘Understanding a Photograph’ by John Berger. When I read this sentence I found myself considering the approach currently taken, at least in much of the Western … Continue reading do more than spell the word
‘An awkward customer for biology’
Raymond Tallis on consciousness:
“Wake-up call for British Psychiatry”
This “Special Article” was published in the British Journal of Psychiatry in July 2008. No other article in the history of the journal has had more responses. A few years … Continue reading “Wake-up call for British Psychiatry”