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- David Napier (10 November 1790– 23 November 1869) was a Scottish marine engineer. Napier began in his father's works at Camlachie and built the boiler for Henry Bell's Comet in 1812. Subsequently, he took over the foundry and established a reputation as one of the best builders of marine engines in Scotland.
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David Napier is Professor of Medical Anthropology at University College London, and Director of the University’s Centre for Applied Global Citizenship.
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I am Professor of Medical Anthropology and direct the UCL Science, Medicine, and Society Network. This Network takes on new and emerging problems of current social importance. We focus on issues not owned by any particular discipline and make it our mission to develop communities of interest around those emerging problems. What a great job!
I came to UCL in 2004, though the cost of living in London means I have never really lived here. I went to Oxford in the 1970s, and because of Mrs. Thatcher had to write my DPhil in one year (she was chasing foreigners out). After that I spent a long time in the States at a few colleges and universities (mostly at Middlebury College in Vermont, but...
Pride is a dangerous idea because it so easily rubs shoulders with vanity. But I am happy that our work on torture survivors last year resulted in a grant to support two therapists for deeply wounded people who not only cannot work in the UK, but who are called criminals if they do. As for academic accomplishments, I am happy to know that my argume...
I am the luckiest guy on earth because what the UCL Science, Medicine, and Society Network does is focus on new and emerging problems demanding cross-disciplinary cooperation. There could be no better job. We have worked on a new Lancet Commission on Culture and Health, on a project to assist irregular migrants who are victims of torture, on an ini...
Music? Perhaps Mozart's Ave Verum, or Brahms's Alto Rhapsody sung by Janet Baker. Goethe's lyrics are just breath-taking, and Brahms was the master of setting music to the human voice and to instruments like the cello that mimic the range of what a person can sing. Then there is Bach's St John Passion with lyrics in German for the everyday congrega...
Why some people think of themselves as leaders. Is that the saddest of all jokes? I don't know. In most cultures I have studied, wisdom is something left to those who have lived. I realise that many who run for office-who want to be leaders or live under the bright lights of great achievement-do so because they have aspirations; but then there is a...
Why don't we forget the other questions and focus on this one? Because my list would not be one for a dinner table, but for a very large banquet. There are so many people I admire and for quite different reasons. But were I stuck with only a dining table and a few chairs, I would have to have some key people there, especially people I want answers ...
Learn more languages. The greatest compliment you can pay others is to have made the effort to appreciate and understand their ways of conceptualising the world. The Oxford philosopher, Stuart Hampshire, asks how we can say what a person is trying to do unless we know what that person expects to happen. So, many values and expectations are expresse...
Well, it is hard to say what surprises anyone. I cannot presume to know how anyone responds to new information. When I was 5 years old a car drove over my head and crushed my skull. So, my brain had to rewire itself and it has worked or not worked in its own unusual way ever since. If I judged what 'surprise' means by studying people being surprise...
I cannot tell you the names of specific places because that would make them no longer sacred. Everyone has to have secrets after all. I can say, though, that a few of them are near my camp in the Adirondacks of New York, and a few others amidst the industrial ruins of my hometown of Pittsburgh. And then there are the places in which I have lived an...
DAVID NAPIER. DAVID NAPIER was born in 1787 the son of Robert Napier and Margaret McDonald in Inveraray, Scotland. David’s father was the smith and armoourer to the 5th Duke of Argyll at Inveraray Castle near Glen Shira at the top of Loch Fyne.
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Nov 1, 2014 · For many years, Napier has been Professor of Medical Anthropology at the UK's University College London (UCL) and Director of UCL's Science, Medicine, and Society Network. But he's also a keen videographer, artist, woodworker (he rebuilt his historic cabin himself), and inventor.
