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By Hole Ousia Posted on June 17, 2021

A door handle with a label

I recently read Letters to Camondo by Edmund De Waal. It is a very special and deeply affecting book about this Parisian museum: One of the rooms has a label … Continue reading A door handle with a label

Categories: Architecture, Medical humanities, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Two culturesTags: A door handle with a label, Antiquary, archive, Archives, Edmund de Waal, emptiness, F1, Hole Ousia, label, labeling, letters to Camondo, Nissim De Camondo, nominative determinism, rebel antiquary, reductionism, Social maverick, stigma, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary

By Hole Ousia Posted on March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

Outside medicine he was a keen gardener

A few years ago I spent a week exploring Scottish gardens that had been tended by a namesake – Peter Gordon, ‘Jobbing Gardener, Forres’. I had considered that, despite having … Continue reading Outside medicine he was a keen gardener

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By Hole Ousia Posted on February 16, 2021

Part of the conversation

I could never be a leader, I do not want to lead. I just want to be part of the conversation. I don’t want to be labelled, I do not … Continue reading Part of the conversation

Categories: Classification of mental illness, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Narrative medicine, Neuro-genetic determinism, Philosophy, Poems, Psychiatry, Two culturesTags: biomedical determinism, biomedical reduction, categorisation, disorder, Dr Peter Gordon, DSM, Hole Ousia, ICD, Is this my sensitivity or that of the world?, label, labeling, Part of the conversation, poem, Poems, poet, poetry, psychiatrist, Psychiatry, rebel antiquary, Scottish Poetry Library, Social maverick, The Rebel Antiquary, Vivendo Discimus

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 9, 2020September 9, 2020

BUMP-TIOUS SCIENCE

Nearly all now agree that Phrenology was never science. History can help guide science. Today: can we be sure that everything understood as scientific is not as BUMP-TIOUS as our … Continue reading BUMP-TIOUS SCIENCE

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