air Archives - Franklin Humanities Institute https://humanitiesfutures.org/tag/air/ Humanities Futures Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:19:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Don’t Breathe a Word: A Psychoanalysis of Medicine’s Inflations https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/dont-breathe-a-word-a-psychoanalysis-of-medicines-inflations/ Fri, 18 May 2018 15:10:26 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3172 Modern medicine has achieved great things but, like all institutions, it has significant flaws. Medicine’s major flaw is inflation, appearing in a variety of guises and intensities as the following: overconfidence, arrogance, self-importance, narcissism, authoritarianism, impulsivity or lack of reflection, fear of failure, intolerance of ambiguity, and overdeterminism.

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