From: Steve Vickers <s.j.vickers@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: Vaughan Pratt <pratt@cs.stanford.edu>, <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Dangerous knowledge
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:18:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1NHogq-00023u-FA@mailserv.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NHSYz-0006UO-U9@mailserv.mta.ca>
Dear Vaughan,
I haven't looked at the programmes, but I mentioned the general drift of
the categories discussion to my wife Dr Camilla Haw. She is a practising
psychiatrist and has also done a lot of research with the Oxford Centre
for Suicide Research. Her comments were (i) academics in general have a
low suicide rate (high rates are for health professionals and
agricultural workers), and (ii) 4 cases over a century or more don't in
themselves add up to risk factor.
Best wishes,
Steve.
Vaughan Pratt wrote:
> Aren't artistic types alleged to be more prone to mental illness than
> say sales clerks, real estate agents, auto mechanics, farmers,
> lumberjacks, etc? More generally, creative people? On that basis
> would one expect a higher prevalence of mental disorders among
> theoretical physicists (Boltzmann) than experimental ones (Rutherford),
> or among mathematicians than engineers, or among top chefs than short
> order cooks?
>
> Everyone seems to be a mental health expert today, just as everyone is
> an expert on evolution and global warming (but not quantum mechanics or
> ecology or anesthesiology, funny how that works). I'd be uncomfortable
> with any innuendos of this kind about theoreticians vs. practitioners,
> or creatives vs servants, or prima donnas vs. choristers, without some
> solid independent evaluation of this question by professionals with a
> substantial track record in mental health. Has any such evaluation been
> made?
>
> Vaughan Pratt
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-07 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-29 23:31 Joyal, André
2009-11-30 16:51 ` Mike Stay
2009-11-30 23:37 ` Dana Scott
[not found] ` <B3C24EA955FF0C4EA14658997CD3E25E2159B5F8@CAHIER.gst.uqam.ca>
2009-12-02 4:03 ` Dangerous times Joyal, André
2009-12-01 1:40 ` Dangerous knowledge Alex Hoffnung
2009-12-01 14:26 ` jim stasheff
2009-12-01 14:30 ` Ronnie Brown
2009-12-01 2:32 ` jim stasheff
2009-12-01 15:13 ` Alex Hoffnung
2009-12-01 16:43 ` Robert Seely
2009-12-02 2:25 ` RE : categories: " Joyal, André
2009-12-02 17:27 ` Ronnie Brown
2009-12-01 3:59 ` Dangerous ignorance Joyal, André
2009-12-01 13:56 ` Dangerous knowledge Charles Wells
2009-12-02 2:16 ` John Baez
2009-12-06 18:46 ` Vaughan Pratt
2009-12-07 2:46 ` Joyal, André
2009-12-07 13:46 ` jim stasheff
2009-12-08 19:15 ` Vaughan Pratt
2009-12-07 14:13 ` A well kept secret Joyal, André
2009-12-08 17:31 ` Steve Vickers
2009-12-09 14:18 ` Charles Wells
2009-12-10 14:49 ` Paul Taylor
2009-12-11 1:44 ` Michael Barr
2009-12-12 0:13 ` jim stasheff
2009-12-13 3:17 ` Wojtowicz, Ralph
2009-12-13 7:01 ` Vaughan Pratt
2009-12-11 1:46 ` Tom Leinster
2009-12-11 6:51 ` Michael Fourman
2009-12-11 8:36 ` Greg Meredith
2009-12-12 19:00 ` Zinovy Diskin
[not found] ` <e3ef1bd7ee7e9e1e1ecdb201955e18f6@PaulTaylor.EU>
2009-12-10 15:51 ` RE : " Joyal, André
2009-12-13 3:30 ` Zinovy Diskin
2009-12-07 17:18 ` Steve Vickers [this message]
2009-12-08 4:09 ` David Spivak
2009-12-12 15:57 ` jim stasheff
2009-12-08 5:23 ` Robert Seely
2009-12-09 16:12 ` Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
[not found] ` <7b998a320912090812x60551840r641fe9feb75efaee@mail.gmail.com>
2009-12-09 17:02 ` Robert Seely
2009-12-10 18:03 ` Dangerous_knowledge Joyal, André
2009-12-01 0:29 Dangerous knowledge Mike Stay
2009-12-03 14:58 jim stasheff
2009-12-03 23:56 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
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