tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9308128.post114885650961891374..comments2023-12-28T17:17:53.361+00:00Comments on Medical Humanities: University of Michigan gets students blogging?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01327462766614907217noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9308128.post-34865787920474480832011-09-22T17:10:49.465+01:002011-09-22T17:10:49.465+01:00I consider that the blog of those students is magn...I consider that the blog of those students is magnificent because we can realize about interesting topics we want to know about medicine and posting our thoughts.xlpharmacyhttp://www.pharmacywiki.org/xlpharmacy.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9308128.post-1149020475479173512006-05-30T21:21:00.000+01:002006-05-30T21:21:00.000+01:00Rather an anti-climax I'd say. What appears at fir...Rather an anti-climax I'd say. What appears at first glance to be an exciting and encouraging project turns out to be a thinly veiled advertisment for their medical school, minus the bits the dean doesn't want you to see.<BR/><BR/>Our medical school is not without its faults, but understandably they are not plastered all over the prospectus - a system of anonymous internal feedback allows direct reference to individual teaching staff.<BR/><BR/>I think this is more engineered that the usual university course promotion - I'd call it airbrushing. What happened to freedom of speech?ajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16352039427323362224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9308128.post-1149011976114444372006-05-30T18:59:00.000+01:002006-05-30T18:59:00.000+01:00I agree Giskin this looks very engineered. Then ag...I agree Giskin this looks very engineered. Then again, French social theorist Jean Baudrillard would argue that there is no 'reality' and that everything is simulated - The Matrix by any other name. In Simulacra and Simulation, Baudrillard argues that our ‘postmodern’ culture is a world of signs that have made a fundamental break from referring to ‘reality’. Baudrillard's concept of simulation is the creation of the real through conceptual or mythological models which have no connection or origin in reality. The model becomes the determinant of our perception of reality-- the real. Homes, relationships, fashion, art, music, all become dictated by their ideal models presented through the media. So, the boundary between the image/representation (or med school blog in this case), or simulation, and reality breaks down. This creates a world of hyperreality where the distinctions between real and unreal are blurred.Beth Williamsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11318908377025774154noreply@blogger.com