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...have its branch of the profession rec ognized as a specialty ? despite the con tradiction in terms. Now, after many commissions and conferences, the A.M.A.'s Council on Medical Education and the Advisory Board for Medical Specialties have granted the G.P.'s plea and agreed to let the generalist become a specialist in "family medicine." The A.A.G.P.'s president, Chicagoan...
...even for scholars. An American diplomat stationed in Moscow some years ago, for example, discovered that books pertaining to the study of the U.S.-Persian relations in the famed Lenin library were catalogued under the letter I, for "In famous U.S.-Persian relations." Such a lack of the generalist's sane overview often made American society, as seen from Moscow, something of a mystery. Was racial violence, for example, a sign that it was coming apart at the seams...
WITH its plain white cover and official seal, the pamphlet from the Senate Subcommittee on National Security and International Operations looked as dull and uninviting as any other Government document. Even the Government Printing Office has its sleepers, however, and Of Specialists and Generalists quickly became the hottest item in Washington. A 71-page compilation of commentary from ancient and modern thinkers, it deals with the question of which is preferable: the specialist with expertise in one field, or the generalist, with broader, if shallower, wisdom. In an age where much rests on the judgment of public men, the question...
...young mouse came up with a proposal to put a bell around the cat's neck, providing the mice with an early warning system. But with their tunnel vision, none of the assembled specialists thought to ask the most crucial question until a grey old mouse-a generalist, no doubt-rose. Who, he asked quietly, would put the bell around the cat's neck...
Coolidge maintains that "encouraging graduate students to involve themselves in the museum is not do-goodism. Rather it is a calculated response to a basic change in the nature of the American art world." He argues that the art historian today must be a generalist, ready to teach a course, write a book or put together an exhibition. Accordingly he has tried to make the Fogg a homogeneous community where there is no distinction between curator and professor or grad student and junior staff member...