Scientific Polymathy: Is the era of the “Two Cultures” finally coming to an end?

Abstract

Today, we face numerous problems, from global health challenges to environmental crises, whose range and scope go far beyond any single discipline. Consequently, our standard approach—the very segregationist thinking described in Snow’s lecture—becomes terribly ill-suited; it confines inquiry to a given set of facts, methods, and heuristics when our problems demand an integrative, multidisciplinary comprehension.

Publication
The Lancet 395.10218 (2020): 113-114
Polymathy Scientific Polymathy