Erstellt am: 24. 8. 2016 - 13:26 Uhr
Today's Webtip: Read Science Fiction for Science!
One thing that has been interesting to watch over the last couple of years has been the utter contempt many people seem to hold for people who studied Humanities or Liberal arts. It seems like in some places, the only thing of value is a STEM degree. Anyone who studied anything else deserves to be unemployed or spend the rest of their lives flipping burgers or pulling espressos.
I clock out of those conversations most of the time, but I might just have to jump back in now that I have a very easily accessible example of a project bridging the hard sciences and the humanities.
The Medical Humanities Research Centre in the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow has set up an online database of sources for future research. According to the site these sources include:
i) Science Fiction: creative works with medical themes (novels, short stories, motion pictures, television, and so on).
ii) Science Faction: (bio)medical sources that are non-fictional, but which borrow the conventions and style of science fiction. These may be in many different media: (non-fiction) books, newspaper and magazine articles; documentary motion pictures and television; websites; promotional material; and so forth.
iii) Critical Sources: scholarly or other informed analysis of medical science fiction and/or faction.
The project investigates the significance of science fiction for the medical humanities, and is intended to pathfind for a future, large-scale research project.
The database is now open for inputs from anyone, which means you too can help adding to the compilation of potential resources. All you have to do is register.