being and becoming in the world
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
This short, artistic film, shares, most briefly, thoughts on ‘institutional behavior’ [in nothing but the most general sense]. The voice is that of Richard Holloway, and is a short out-take* … Continue reading Outsider art
From our tower there is a view to nowhere that we alone can see, properly. The evidence heirarchy is a system, that can be turned upside down [when required] by ‘proper academics’ … Continue reading ‘Proper Academics’
This passage from ‘Stories We Tell Ourselves’ by Richard Holloway reminded me of writings and research into certainty and medical decison making:
In his talk ‘The mystery and paradox of scientific medicine‘ Raymond Tallis remarked:
I regularly read the BMJ Rapid Responses and find them to provide opportunities to learn and often to challenge any existing understandings that I may have established. The following response … Continue reading Hubris and the medical profession
This perspective in the current BMJ seems important to me. The author, Matt Morgan begins: “If ‘I love you’ are the three most important words in life, then ‘I don’t … Continue reading “Those three little words”