Anna Hartford

Aug 12, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Anna Hartford |Dan Stein |SAMRC Unit

1 Introduction Bertrand Russell married Alys Pearsall Smith in 1894. The match was strongly opposed by members of Russell's family, but his deep love, admiration, and attachment to Smith prevailed. For seven years they lived contentedly as man and wife. Then one unremarkable day Russell set out for an afternoon cycle and was struck by an emotional epiphany. ‘Suddenly, as I was riding along a country road, I realised that I no longer loved Alys’, he recounted in his autobiography.

May 10, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Dan Stein |Kris Nielsen |Anna Hartford |Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien

Work at the intersection of philosophy and medicine makes an important contribution by considering key metaphysical issues (e.g., what is the nature of disease?), epistemological questions (e.g., how do we determine the validity of diagnostic concepts?), and ethical matters (e.g., how does disease impact personhood?). Analogous questions arise at the intersection of philosophy and psychiatry. Since ancient times, implicit and explicit responses have had a crucial influence on clinical practice.

Sep 18, 2023 | yalereview.org | Anna Hartford

Anna Hartford You shouldn’t think too much about it.” I was in the office of my gynecologist, who had always struck me as an under-thinker. But now I agreed with him. I had overanalyzed the question of whether to have a child, and the process had not led to any resolve, only to a knot of fear and uncertainty. Yet when I stepped back everything was quite simple: I loved someone, I wanted his child, I wanted our family. At the time I was thirty-two.