the starting-point
the starting-point: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Clip credit: Royal College of Psychiatrists [as openly shared by RCPsych, 8 June 2023] Word … Continue reading the starting-point
Tag: C P Snow
I write as ‘one of those’.
The following response was written by myself over a decade ago. The recent extensive promotion of Scottish Brain Sciences reminded me of it. Response to the head to head debate: … Continue reading I write as ‘one of those’.
the starting-point
the starting-point: To play this short film please click here or on the image above. Clip credit: Royal College of Psychiatrists [as openly shared by RCPsych, 8 June 2023] Word … Continue reading the starting-point
Corridors of Power
To play my short film: I don’t want this isolation please click here or on the image below:
The “two cultures”
Robert Whelan, May 2009: “Fifty years on, CP Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ are united in desperation In a famous lecture 50 years ago, CP Snow warned that science and arts were … Continue reading The “two cultures”
CHEMIST and DRUGGIST [heard the whisper?]
Featuring old front covers of this weekly journal. The film closes with out-takes from Corridors of Power by C P Snow. CHEMIST and DRUGGIST [heard the whisper?]: To play this … Continue reading CHEMIST and DRUGGIST [heard the whisper?]
For the Greeks
Before the early 1830s the word “science” was rarely heard. After this time, at least in the Western world, the humanities increasingly became “divorced” from the sciences [and vice versa]. … Continue reading For the Greeks
The commercialisation and branding of a profession (5)
The Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress begins today in London. #RCPsychIC I recently asked if the Royal College of Psychiatrists was “Puritanical or Platinum?” Last year I resigned from … Continue reading The commercialisation and branding of a profession (5)