Angus Fletcher. Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. 192 pp. index. $31.50. ISBN: 978–0–674–02308–6.

2008 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 1409-1410
Author(s):  
Angelica Duran
Keyword(s):  
Harvard University ◽  
Time Space

scholarly journals Sword, H. (2017). Air & Light & Time & Space: How Successful Academics Write. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 98-100
Author(s):  
Cecile Badenhorst
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Research Reporting ◽  
Extensive Data ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Rigorous Research ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
Successful Academic

Helen Sword, author of Stylish Academic Writing (2012) and The Writer’s Diet (2016), is a staunch campaigner for shaking the dust off academic writing. She advocates that style, elegance and readability are not incompatible with rigorous research reporting. In her most recent book, Air & Light & Time & Space (2017), Sword turns her attention away from texts and shifts the spotlight onto writers. She collected extensive data to explore the habits and experiences of academic writers – how they write, when, where and how they feel when they write. Drawing on 100 interviews with successful academic writers and 1,223 questionnaires from participants at her writing workshops, Sword showcases academic writing experiences. Through extensive quotations and profiling, she illustrates the mixed, mottled and varied practices that writers engage in.

A Tribute to the Late William J. Curran

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-275
Author(s):  
O. Lawrence ◽  
J.D. Gostin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Legal Medicine ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Institute ◽  
University Professor

In the summer of 1979, a group of experts on law, medicine, and ethics assembled in Siracusa, Sicily, under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science, to draft guidelines on the rights of persons with mental illness. Sitting across the table from me was a quiet, proud man of distinctive intelligence, William J. Curran, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at Harvard University. Professor Curran was one of the principal drafters of those guidelines. Many years later in 1991, after several subsequent re-drafts by United Nations (U.N.) Rapporteur Erica-Irene Daes, the text was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly as the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care. This was the kind of remarkable achievement in the field of law and medicine that Professor Curran repeated throughout his distinguished career.

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