The pressures upon medical academia mean that our medical education and research is under great threat. This is down to the new Health and Social Care Bill, changes to university […]
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Richard Smith: Medicine’s need for the humanities
I spoke as well at the meeting on valuing the humanities at the London School of Economics (see blog below), and I argued that medicine needs the humanities badly. The […]
Richard Smith: Battling the assault on the humanities
Having decided that higher education is no longer a public good, the coalition government has cut completely the funding for teaching the humanities. This is a desperately short sighted move, […]