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By Hole Ousia Posted on October 8, 2020March 5, 2023

Playfair brought light

The architect William Henry Playfair brought light to specimens in jars. More than two hundred years later so did Kathleen Jamie in her book FINDINGS. I was born in Edinburgh … Continue reading Playfair brought light

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By Hole Ousia Posted on March 1, 2019February 16, 2023

When everything is reduced to a word – what nonsense

Psychopathology

Categories: Medical Education, Medical humanities, NHS Scotland, Philosophy, Poems, Psychiatry, StigmaTags: Antiquary, Dr Peter Gordon, harm, Hole Ousia, iatrogenic, Little Sparta, Mary Midgley, medicalising, no nothing as medical or nameable as that, one word poems, pathologising, Peter Gordon, Peter's poems, Psychiatry, psychopathology, rebel antiquary, reductionism, Scottish Poetry Library, Social maverick, stigma, The Antiquary, The Rebel Antiquary, When everything is reduced to a word - what nonsense

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