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C.P Snow goes into great detail about the divide
concerning scientists and literary intellectuals in “The
Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution”. His whole essay resonates with my education
from kindergarten to today. UCLA is a prime example of the “divide” as we have
North campus and South campus. It is almost as if these “two” campuses speak
two different languages. It saddens me that although I am certain of my career
path, I cannot be a part of both campuses and I have to choose form one. I
almost feel alienated when I have to “cross” the bridge to get to North campus
for a mandatory English class.
My
career goal is to be in the medical field and I have found form experience that
it is quite rare to find a doctor with good let alone great bed side manners.
In Medicine, people are hidden
behind 'medical conditions' rather than being seen as a human beings, so the
science and labelling makes it all very impersonal.
It may be essential (as a defense and
coping mechanism) for the Doctors to be distant from the person, but that
creates an impersonal and cold empirical mindset. This party could stem from
the issue of “two cultures” as once you are in the science word, there is not
getting out and broadening your education and even communication skills. This all
stems back to the “divide” that C.P Snow talk about. Pre-Med students are all
stuck in formulas and theories and to an extent, struggle with basic north campus
mindsets. It is vital that this “divide” is merged as the future of our doctors
looks grim and uninviting to the patient’s eye.
On the other hand, I can see technology
and drugs have become an essential part of medicine. If technology did not bind
with Medicine, then we would not have all of the life saving machines that save
millions of lives each year. Perhaps an increase in “intellectual literacy” to
science, which in turn is “closing the gap”, is essential for understanding and
treating the patient as a whole.
In the lectures, the message (even
as originally CP Snow wanted it) is that sciences and humanities should support
each other as science helps reduce ambiguity and language helps expression.
Educational systems however have encouraged separation and division between the
two and developed stereotypes that encourage a mindset of separation.
Sources:
C.P.
Snow on 3rd Culture Bridge. Photograph. https://www.stoa.org.uk/topics/two-cultures/images/ttc1.jpg
Medical
Technology. Photograph. https://i1.wp.com/www.ibiobq.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/future_of_medicine_with_ehr.jpg?fit=1732,1155
Bed Side Manners. Photograph. https://www.robertkotlermd.com/finding-plastic-surgeon-bedside-manner/
Snow,
C. P. The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. New York: Cambridge
UP, 1959. Print.
Vesna, Victoria. "Toward a Third Culture: Being In
Between." Leonardo. 34 (2001): 121-125. Print.
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