Common sense is a historical category - and none of our questions around sex and gender are really new
Category: Hippocrates
Let’s talk about (assisted) dying
There’s something going on here about how we don’t want to take full responsibility for our decisions; we don’t want to think through the issues properly, instead bringing in some text from the past as if it is entirely without its own historical context.
Not-so-Great Courses
One of the Google alerts I have to notify me of anything new in my various fields of interest is on the word "Hippocrates". On 5 March 2021 it came up with a link to a page called 'The Foundations of Modern Medicine', which appears to be a short summary of a section of a… Continue reading Not-so-Great Courses
The history of cancer: Part 1
Why do we want a disease to have a history?
Quote/unquote: basic errors in using the internet for doing history
Just occasionally, even I am shocked at how people don't bother to look at the basics when using a web page as evidence for their arguments: who wrote this? when did they write it? what's their evidence? are they using that evidence properly? This happened today. I was engaging in one of those chats on Twitter… Continue reading Quote/unquote: basic errors in using the internet for doing history
Mistaking histories 