The Worry-Fencer: the roots and restlessness of our present time.
Tracing the source of our restlessness, in dialogue.
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06, 2017
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06, 2017
Recording emotions can heal the body (Claudia Hammond, BBC Future)
Recording feelings about the impact of disease can strengthen our immune system.
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05, 2017
Culture compared to civilization
Culture as a feature of progress; civilization as its form.
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05, 2017
Listening in health care: a humanities task (Philippa Göranson, Global Listening Centre)
Restoring the art of listening in the health care setting.
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05, 2017
Contending with the loss of autonomy in the Age of AI
Recovering autonomy and escaping the existential vacuum.
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05, 2017
Dante, Petersburg, and the pages of memory
Poetry and recollection in Petersburg / Leningrad.
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05, 2017
The perils of thinking with the humanities (Francine Prose, The Guardian)
How thinking with complexity adds to our cultural (and political) understanding.
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05, 2017
The Decline of the West (again) (Rachel Nuwer, BBC Future)
Computing science and math, along with historical knowledge, offer new assessments on the health of the current society.
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04, 2017
Narrative medicine and compassionate care: the greater story ( Sarah Barber, Carlos J. Moreno-Leguizamon, Medical Humanities)
Healthcare practitioners may read a patient's narrative in more than the medical literature.
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04, 2017
Promoting one’s image
The modern fascination with "image," particularly that of ourselves.