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By Hole Ousia Posted on October 13, 2022

No natural light

Categories: History of medicine, Medical Education, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Psychiatry, Sunshine Act for ScotlandTags: a blot a stain or perhaps something worse, BAP, Big Pharma, branding, British Association for Psychopharmacology, business is booming, competing interests, conflicts of interest, Cumberlege Review, declaration, declaration of interest, first do no harm, Gathering public views on a register of interests for Scotland, Hole Ousia, How much is too much medicine, Iatrogenic harm, In a time of too much medicine, industry, It is boom time for the College, It's boom time for industry, Ivan Illich, Key Opinion Leader, marketing, Narrative control, Narrative Controllers, no natural light, over-medicalisation, Paid Opinion Leader, PE1493, primum non nocere, Proud to say, Proud to say we are the industry's number one, Psychiatry in Fabula, RCPsych, Realistic Medicine, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Science Media Centre Promotes Corporate Views of Science, Scottish Government, seemed to favour narratives from a narrow range of scientific advisors, Sunshine Act, Sunshine legislation, The Narrative Controllers, The Neon yellow preservation society, The porter sounded the bell, The Porter's Bell, The report of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, This is Boom time, Too much Medicine, Transparency, Why are efforts to ensure realistic prescribing failing, with no natural light in the room

By Hole Ousia Posted on October 10, 2022

‘Proud to say’

Categories: History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Psychiatry, Sunshine Act for ScotlandTags: a blot a stain or perhaps something worse, BAP, Big Pharma, branding, British Association for Psychopharmacology, business is booming, competing interests, conflicts of interest, Cumberlege Review, declaration, declaration of interest, first do no harm, Gathering public views on a register of interests for Scotland, Hole Ousia, How much is too much medicine, Iatrogenic harm, In a time of too much medicine, industry, It is boom time for the College, It's boom time for industry, Ivan Illich, Key Opinion Leader, marketing, Narrative control, Narrative Controllers, over-medicalisation, Paid Opinion Leader, PE1493, primum non nocere, Proud to say, Proud to say we are the industry's number one, Psychiatry in Fabula, RCPsych, Realistic Medicine, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Science Media Centre Promotes Corporate Views of Science, Scottish Government, seemed to favour narratives from a narrow range of scientific advisors, Sunshine Act, Sunshine legislation, The Narrative Controllers, The Neon yellow preservation society, The porter sounded the bell, The Porter's Bell, The report of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, This is Boom time, Too much Medicine, Transparency, Why are efforts to ensure realistic prescribing failing

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 30, 2022September 30, 2022

ASTROV: scholarship might have to reassess all sorts of certainties

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

Categories: Classification of mental illness, History of medicine, Medical Education, Medical humanities, Medical writings, Narrative medicine, Omphalos films, Pharmaceutical industry and Medical Education, Philosophy, Psychiatry, Stigma, Two culturesTags: 2 cultures, Albert Camus, Ali Smith, Andrew Greig, Anthony Doerr, Antiquary, Anton Chekhov, biomedical determinism, C.P. Snow, Candia McWilliams, discovery of the scholarly gardener recalled, Dr Peter J Gordon, Evelyn Waugh, F R leavis, first do no harm, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gabriel García Márquez, gentle gardener, Gustave Flaubert, hippocratic oath, Hole Ousia, Ian Hamilton Finlay, It is by living we learn, Ivan Illich, James Davies, John Macmurray, Julian Barnes, Mary Midgley, Matt Haig, medical humanities, My formal instruction of resignation as a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, nullius in verba, Omphalos, Omphalos films, over-medicalisation, Owen Jones, Patrick Geddes, Petter J, primum non nocere, Realistic Psychiatry, rebel antiquary, Richard Holloway, Roy Porter, scholarly gardener remembered, scholarship might have to reassess all sorts of certainties, Scott Walker, Scott Walker Revisited, Social maverick, Sylvia Plath, The Antiquary, The Gentle Gardener, The Rebel Antiquary, the two cultures, This film voices others, Tomasi di Lampedusa, Too much Medicine, Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, Vivendo Discimus

By Hole Ousia Posted on September 30, 2022

‘SIBERIA is home to’

NOTE: the blackboard advert was displayed outside a commercial outlet in Aberdeen. It was the reverse side of this. The NEON YELLOW PRESERVATION SOCIETY is a fictional society.

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