RT Journal
A1 Bean WB
T1 SCience and the humanities
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 1963
FD January 1
VO 111
IS 1
SP 130
OP 131
DO 10.1001/archinte.1963.03620250134035
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1963.03620250134035
AB The Markle Scholars in Medicine met at Aspen in 1957 and had a 3-day Symposium dealing with science and the humanities. Moody Prior's book, Science and the Humanities, had its origin in this symposium. He was able to extend and elaborate upon his views during a recent sabbatical year. This is a very capable study, stimulating, provocative, properly finding fault with scientists but not by any means confining critical remarks to them, but also addressing criticism to those who work in the field of humane letters. There seems to be no disagreement that the balance between science and the humanities has shifted notably and critically. Whereas early in the Eighteenth Century the humanities were aggressively critical of science, now it is the other way around. Prior emphasizes that while certain powers may lie latent in a particular field of learning, those who are exposed do not always possess the qualities