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From:Nature (Vol. 461, Issue 7268) Peer-ReviewedBlessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed The World by Stephanie J. Snow (Oxford Univ. Press, 9.99 [pounds sterling]) Stephanie Snow explores how early advances in anaesthetics changed society....
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From:Nature (Vol. 459, Issue 7243) Peer-ReviewedCharles Percy Snow ignited controversy around science and policy-making in a series of lectures at Harvard University a year after his 'Two Cultures' debate. Below we reproduce an extract from the resulting book,...
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From:Michigan Academician (Vol. 44, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Anthony T. Kronman, in his book Education's End, both critiques the current teaching trends in the liberal arts and argues for a return to teaching "the meaning of life in a deliberate and organized way "...
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From:Nature (Vol. 459, Issue 7243) Peer-ReviewedFifty years ago today, Charles Percy Snow argued in an influential lecture that the failure of science and the humanities to converse, and the lack of scientists in positions of power, was disastrous for society. In the...
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From:Nature (Vol. 459, Issue 7243) Peer-Reviewed"I did not expect much. Plenty of people were saying similar things. It seemed to me to be a time when one should add one's voice." Thus did the English scientist-turned-administrator-turned-novelist Charles Percy Snow...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe philosophic origins of science and the evolution of the two cultures, that of science and that of the arts, are discussed with attention to Aristotle and his classification of animals and other achievements, Leonardo...
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From:Albion (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed[T]he life of a country is determined by its educational ideals --Scrutiny, 1932 [I]t is obligatory for us...to look at our education with fresh eyes. --C.P. Snow, 1959 In 1959 C. P. Snow turned a phrase...
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From:The Historian (Vol. 72, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBlessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed the World. By Stephanie J. Snow. (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 226. $34.95.) In his 1902 book, The Varieties of Religious Experience,...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 128, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedC.P. Snow's 1959 Rede Lecture has raised many issues regarding the relationship between sciences and the arts and humanities. An analysis of the lecture and subsequent disputes arising from it, particularly the rebuttal...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 33, Issue 1)BLESSED DAYS OF ANAESTHESIA: How Anaesthetics Changed the World. By Stephanie J. Snow. Oxford Univ. Press. 226pp. $34.95 BEFORE THE ERA OF ANESTHETICS, walking to the operating room resembled "going to a hanging,"...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 125, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedC. P. Snow bridges the worlds of science, literature, law, public administration, and academic life. He looks at the social condition so that he can see better the human condition. C .P. Snow (1905-1980), novelist,...
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From:Nature (Vol. 456, Issue 7218) Peer-ReviewedBlessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed the World by Stephanie J. Snow Oxford University Press: 2008. 256 pp. 16.99 [pounds sterling], $34.95 I am no hero. All my life I have tried to avoid...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 23, Issue 4)"A View from the Bridge: The Two Cultures Debate, Its Legacy, and the History of Science" by D. Graham Burnett, in Daedalus (Spring 1999), Norton's Woods, 136 Irving St., Cambridge, Mass. 02138. Forty years ago,...
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From:CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (Vol. 46, Issue 8)46-4485 RD79 MARC Snow, Stephanie J. Blessed days of anaesthesia: how anaesthetics changed the world. Oxford, 2008. 226p bibl index afp ISBN 9780192805867, $34.95 The pain associated with surgery and dental...
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From:symploke (Vol. 11, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedIn the January 14, 2000 issue of the journal Science, Stephen Jay Gould published an article titled "Deconstructing the 'Science Wars' by Reconstructing an Old Mold," referring to the familiar conflict between...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 52, Issue 14)Byline: DAVID P. BARASH The year 2005 is the centenary of the birth -- and the 25th anniversary of the death -- of C.P. Snow, British physicist, novelist, and longtime denizen of the "corridors of power" (a phrase he...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 110, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedC.P. Snow and Harry Summerfield Hoff shared one calling as scientists, and another as very influential writers. But they had different ways of approaching a blank sheet of paper, and different ways of looking at the...
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From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 52, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBlessed Days of Anaesthesia: How Anaesthetics Changed the World, by Stephanie J. Snow; pp. xiv+ 226. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, 16.99 [pounds sterling], 9.99 [pounds sterling] paper, $34.95,...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed* More than four decades after C. P. Snow's famous (or notorious) Rede Lecture on "the two cultures," the bitter dispute that it provoked between him and F. R. Leavis retains considerable currency. [1] And this is true...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 59, Issue 8)SNOW, Alan. Worse Things Happen at Seal: A Tale of Pirates, Poison, and Monsters. illus. by author. 340p. S & S/Atheneum. 2013. Tr $17.99. ISBN 978-0-689-87049-1; ebook $9.99. ISBN 978-1-4424-6823-8. Gr 4-8--In this...