Edward Bullmore
Auteur de The Inflamed Mind
Œuvres de Edward Bullmore
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Bullmore, Edward Thomas
- Date de naissance
- 1960-09-27
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
Hong Kong - Études
- Westminster School, London, England, UK
University of Oxford (Christ Church)
St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, England, UK - Professions
- Professor of Psychiatry
neuroscientist
Neuropsychiatrist - Prix et distinctions
- Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2008)
Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (2009)
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (2010)
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Membres
- 131
- Popularité
- #154,467
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 9
- ISBN
- 15
- Langues
- 2
The reason this seems to most of the medical profession such a revolutionary—even nonsensical—idea is that it brings together two realms medicine usually prefers to keep apart: body and mind. Terms such as “neuro-immunology” and “immuno-psychiatry” reflect the orthodox dualistic view that what goes on in the brain is separate from what goes on in the rest of the body, and to many the idea that inflammation can cross the supposed “blood-brain barrier” (what the author calls the Berlin Wall) is unthinkable.
Body and mind: although an ancient way of dividing us in two, medically and scientifically speaking we largely have Rene Descartes to thank or curse for this, and Bullmore fills in the background because it’s also the background to the case he’s making. As he says, even four centuries after Descartes our medical services are still organised along Cartesian lines: two completely different sets of hospitals, two kinds of doctor, two types of treatment.
Just to add: this is no “pop” medical book written by a journalist or someone unqualified altogether. Edward Bullmore himself crossed his “Berlin Wall”, having originally trained in medicine at Oxford, then Bart’s Hospital in central London, later retraining in psychiatry where he is now Professor and Department Head at Cambridge University. And just to emphasise: The Inflamed Mind isn’t orthodoxy. If he’s right though the result might be, not only a fuller understanding of certain debilitating mental disorders, but a more unified view of human beings.… (plus d'informations)