Science, Social Science, and Humanism

Humanism and Science

T HE most common view of the relation between humanism and science is that the two elements are antithetic. In my view humanism and science are complementary. And indeed, I believe that in the last analysis each includes the other which is not to say they are identical. But this antithetic view has a long and I suppose distinguished history dating back to virtually the very beginnings of modern...

Humanism in An Age of Science

In this thoughtful little essay, Dr. Fulton expresses his concern over the ever-widening gap between the humanities and the sciences in modern education. Recent great discoveries in science and medicine may result in still more emphasis on the technological, at the expense of the cultural, training of men for the practice of medicine, itself "a great humanistic enterprise." As one means of brid...

Social science. Computational social science.

Psychiatry for the Person: articulating medicine's science and humanism.

The WPA Institutional Program on Psychiatry for the Person: from Clinical Care to Public Health (IPPP), approved by the 2005 General Assembly, involves a WPA initiative affirming the whole person of the patient in context as the center and goal of clinical care and health promotion, at both individual and community levels. This involves the articulation of science and humanism to optimize atten...

The science in social science.

A recent poll showed that most people think of science as technology and engineering--life-saving drugs, computers, space exploration, and so on. This was, in fact, the promise of the founders of modern science in the 17th century. It is less commonly understood that social and behavioral sciences have also produced technologies and engineering that dominate our everyday lives. These include po...