Against Medical Silos

[摘要] This article marks the fifth anniversary of the Science in the Arts series. Over the years these pieces aimed to illustrate how different scientific themes, discoveries, and theories permeated the visual arts. They also looked at the artistic representation of scientists and their work. They attempted to explore parallelisms in the approach to the unknown, to validation of new concepts, and to ways to educate and preserve continuity in each of the fields. Recent articles addressed innovative bridging ideas, such as artscience (1).Since the 19th century there has been a pronounced morphing of culture into separate science and humanities domains. The humanities subjects, literature, history, language, performing and visual arts, and philosophy have been the core of the liberal arts education in the US (the original seven Greek liberal arts were arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy, logic, rhetoric, and grammar). In his recent book on the role of humanities in the US, Geoffrey Galt Harpham contrasts the liberal arts undergraduate education with professional education, which in the US is predominantly delivered at a graduate stage (2).As Harpham says, the difference between science and the humanities is that while …

[学科分类] 过敏症与临床免疫学