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Frederick the Great
Frederick the Great
A Prussian king and military leader who reorganized the Prussian armies and noted for his Silesia...
Ibn al-Haytham
Ibn al-Haytham
A Muslim Arab mathematician, astronomer, and physicist of the Islamic Golden Age who is referred ...
Ernest Renan
Ernest Renan
A French Orientalist and Semitic scholar who wrote influential and pioneering historical works on...
Nicolas Poussin
Nicolas Poussin
The leading painter of the classical French Baroque style
The François Rabelais School of Medicine

The François Rabelais School of Medicine

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The Rabelais School will produce graduates who are as comfortable in the shit as they are in the stars—and understand that the pathology they observe in humanity is equally present in themselves.This medical school takes François Rabelais (c1494-1553), Franciscan monk, Bachelor of Medicine, and humanist, as its muse. Although his inspirational work Gargantua and Pantagruel celebrates his abilities as a satirist and misogynist, his role as an educationalist has been overlooked. “He was a man intoxicated by every sort of learning and theory,” according to one translator, “who, at the same time, had the earthy common sense of a peasant.”1 In an increasingly divided world, with medicine increasingly preoccupied by technical elitism, Rabelais stands as a cogent model.The Rabelais School follows the “mischievous rascal” tendency of scientific humanism, through Voltaire (“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease”) to Sir William Osler (“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine”). It acknowledges Osler as the seminal medicinal nihilist of the modern era, whose general iconoclasm and dem...

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