Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Multiculturalism: science, discourse, humanities

To recap. After C P Snow’s 1959 Rede Lecture “The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution”, the Cambridge literary critic, F R Leavis, in his 1962 Richmond Lecture, “The Two Cultures? The Significance of C. P. Snow” venomously slandered Snow’s abilities as a novelist and intellectual. Snow then wrote another essay, “The Two Cultures: A […]

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Michael Brady: We now have all the tools to stop HIV for good—but stigma still persists

Almost exactly one year ago, there was a little known breakthrough that quietly started to change everything for people with HIV. The findings from the landmark PARTNER Study were published last July. Out of 58,000 instances of condomless sex in heterosexual and MSM couples recorded in the study; where one partner was HIV positive and […]

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Shivani Randev: The system needs to change to tackle violence against doctors in India

Reports of violence against doctors in India are no longer rare instances. They have become an everyday feature in the media. But finally doctors have started to fight back. Almost 4000 resident doctors in the state of Maharashtra went on strike to protest against incidents of assault, their only demand being better security in their workplace. These incidents […]

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Nishma Manek: How can we attract and retain a workforce that may be developing its own set of social norms?

Ian Cumming, chief executive of Health Education England, gave a speech recently at the NHS Confederation’s conference that prompted another set of millennial-bashing headlines. [1] I’m a millennial. We’re defined as those currently aged between 20 and 37, often cited as one of the great scourges of modern times. Apparently, the year I was born […]

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