James Le Fanu
Autor de The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine
Sobre El Autor
James Le Fanu is a medical columnist for the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph as well as a writer for the Times, the Spectator, and GQ. He lives in London.
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Obras de James Le Fanu
Too Many Pills: How Too Much Medicine is Endangering Our Health and What We Can Do About It (2018) 10 copias
"Daily Telegraph" Family Encyclopedia of Medicine and Health (Robinson family health) (2000) 8 copias
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- 17
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- #83,813
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- 3.5
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- 1
- ISBNs
- 36
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- 2
Twice he gives space to extensive quotes from the mathematical approaches of Fisher and Hamilton, only to point out their obscurity. Difficult for the layman to understand does not mean wrong or misleading, it just means difficult. This is a pretty cheap trick for a science writer: as if a half-educated person told an illiterate to "distrust all that book-larnin".
Near the end he airs the old trinity of Darwin, Marx and Freud, while admitting that Marx and Freud have already revealed their feet of clay and that he hasn't really discussed them; he says these three materialists have robbed us of meaning. But it's pretty clear that Marx and Freud were far from being any sort of scientist. I remember reading a book at school which made similar case: Darwin Marx Freud have killed the mystery of life, nothing but gaping masks remain. Not much new under the sun.
Best quote in the book is from Isaiah Berlin: "As for the meaning of life, I do not believe it has any - and it is a source of great comfort. We make of it what we can, and that is all there is to it. Those who seek some cosmic all-encompassing explanation are deeply mistaken". I felt my spirit lift as I read that. As I finished the book, as if in endorsement from the realm of coincidence, came a profile of Isaiah Berlin on the radio, lamenting the lack of such "public intellectuals" today.… (más)