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How I got into – and out of – academia

How I got into – and out of – academia

In 1999, as an undergraduate student in modern languages at the University of Oxford, I stumbled upon a documentary about bioethics featuring an interview with Jean Bernard, a renowned and by then elderly French haematologist, bioethicist and member of the Académie Française. He described the remarkable changes in medicine during the 20th century – from […] … learn more→