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By Hole Ousia Posted on May 9, 2022March 21, 2023

“I know what it is like to be studied”

A passage from this novel by Hanya Yanagihara:

Categories: History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Philosophy, PsychiatryTags: 2 cultures, A passage from this novel by Hanya Yanagihara, a poem about the The Porsolt Forced Swimming Test, a series of behaviours and beliefs, Abraham Norton Perina, Antiquary, Dr Peter Gordon, experimental rats, Hanya Yanagihara, Hole Ousia, I know what it is like to be studied, Novel, Peter Gordon, Porsolt Forced Swimming Test, Porsolt test, Psychiatry, rebel antiquary, reduced to a thing, reductionism, Social maverick, The Antiquary, The People in the Trees, The Rebel Antiquary, unlearning things is much more difficult than them

By Hole Ousia Posted on April 9, 2017January 30, 2023

She has. No. Plan.

Categories: Medical Education, Narrative medicine, NHS Scotland, Philosophy, This is Not yesterday, Two culturesTags: Aha! A shrew, Anne Tyler, Antiquary, Arts, borrowed words, Caledonian Antisyzygy, discovery of the scholarly gardener recalled, Dr Peter Gordon, experimental rats, fingernail-size umbrella, From Scotland to Siberia, gardens, gentle gardener, He has very important matters on his mind - Wiping out worldwide disease and such, hellebores, Hole Ousia, I base the observation purely on empirical evidence, I need to get back to my gardening, I.m on to something here - I relly feel it: I'm about to discover one single unified key to disorders, it was a very inexact science, It's like those mice matter more to him than we do!, It's Sunday! I'm weeding the hellebores, Mice are gone, on subjects less scientific - his language turned stunted again, Peter Gordon, Porsolt Forced Swimming Test, Porsolt test, presumptuous zipper, quotes, rebel antiquary, scholarly gardener remembered, Science, She has. No. Plan., she saw no reason why he couldn't be the more tentative one and she the more definite, Social maverick, Taming of the Shrew, The Antiquary, The Gentle Gardener, The Little People's School was very big on manners, The Rebel Antiquary, trying-too-hard aspect, Two Cultures, Vinegar Girl

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