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By Hole Ousia Posted on Dec 27, 2019

Cosmic light and skeletons

John Herschel, 1792 – 1871, was an English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, and experimental photographer. Herschel’s Preliminary Discourse (1831), which advocated an inductive approach to scientific experiment and theory-building, … Continue reading Cosmic light and skeletons

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By Hole Ousia Posted on Apr 6, 2019

Anton Chekhov and ASTROV

The image is of Colinton pharmacy.

Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, NHS Hospitality Registers, Omphalos films, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Philosophy, Scotland, Sunshine Act for Scotland, Two culturesTags: A Sunshine Act for Scotland, ASTROV, chemist, Colinton, ethics, fully informed consent, medicine, mortar and pestle, NHS Scotland, Peter J Gordon, Pharmacy, philosophy, Realistic Medicine, Two Cultures

By Hole Ousia Posted on Apr 6, 2019

Julian Barnes said . . .

Image is of Colinton village pharmacy

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By Hole Ousia Posted on Feb 23, 2019

Wolves at the door

Categories: Antidepressant prescribing, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Medical writings, Narrative medicine, NHS Hospitality Registers, NHS Scotland, Omphalos films, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Philosophy, Poems, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia, Scotland, Stigma, Sunshine Act for Scotland, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: chemist, commerce, Device makers, existential, fear, harm, iatrogenic, industry, Iona Heath, Lupus In Fabula, mortar and pestle, My lovely furry wolfskin coat, Narrative Controllers, pharma, Pharmacy, Prescribed drug dependence and withdrawal, progress hardly broke its stride, Realistic Medicine, Roald Dahl, Too much Medicine, Where Gordon Bennett meets the headlines, wolf, wolff, wolves

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