“If I had to live like you, I think I’d kill myself”: Explaining the Disability Paradox Havi Carel, Professor of Philosophy and Head of Subject, University of Bristol Comment: Brian Hurwitz, Professor of Medicine and the Arts, King’s College London Thursday, November 26, 2015. 18.30-20.00 Guy’s Campus, New Hunts House, Theatre 1 Free, […]
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Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre: Sheree Rose and Martin O’Brien
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The Reading Room: A review of ‘Memoirs of a woman doctor’
©D. Carpenter-Latiri portrait of Nawal El-Saadawi UK 2015 El-Saadawi, N. (2000). Memoirs of a woman doctor. London: Saqi Books. Reviewed by Dr Dora Carpenter-Latiri, Senior Lecturer, College of Arts & Humanities, University of Brighton Nawal El-Saadawi, the famous Egyptian feminist activist, trained and practised as a medical doctor, a psychiatrist and a surgeon. She is also […]
Khalid Ali: Ageing (dis)gracefully from Camden pavements to Swiss resorts
Review of “The lady in the van” directed by Nicholas Hytner, UK release 13th November 2015, and “Youth” directed by Paolo Sorrentino, UK release January 2016 “The lady in the van” and “Youth” that recently premièred at the London Film Festival (LFF) in October 2015 are two great films about “senior citizens” in two completely […]
Call for Papers – special issue of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
The editors of a forthcoming (2017) special issue of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry on “Investigating public trust in expert knowledge: ethics, narrative and engagement” are currently inviting submission of papers. The special issue will be the first of its kind to examine the ethics of public trust in expert knowledge systems in emergent […]
The Reading Room: A review of ‘A Doctor’s Dictionary’
Iain Bamforth A Doctor’s Dictionary: Writings on Culture & Medicine 2015 Manchester: Carcanet ISBN: 978 1 784100 56 8 Reviewed by Professor Alan Bleakley Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities Plymouth Peninsula School of Medicine, Plymouth University UK Iain Bamforth, by his own admission, is a writer who practices medicine. Indeed, while he appears […]
The Reading Room: A review of ‘The Spanish Flu…’
The Spanish Flu: Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918 Ryan A. Davis. Published by Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. Hardcover, 255 pages. ISBN 978-1-137-33920-1 This book is unusual in that it deals with a subject that is scarcely found among international literature in the English language, the great influenza pandemic of 1918, or Spanish Flu, so-named […]
The Reading Room: A review of ‘Medical Humanities & Medical Education: How the Medical Humanities can Shape Better Doctors’
Medical Humanities & Medical Education: How the Medical Humanities can Shape Better Doctors by Alan Bleakley. Published by Routledge, 2015. Reviewed by Dr Claire Elliott How can medical education be changed to produce better, kinder medical students? How can they develop more astute clinical skills and improved awareness of the ethical and professional […]
Patients’, doctors’ and nurses’ stories at the London Film Festival (7-18 October 2015)
‘The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly’ Patients’, doctors’ and nurses’ stories at the London Film Festival (7-18 October 2015) October is the time of the year when the London Film Festival (LFF) http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff brings the best of British and World cinema to film lovers in London. Screening 238 fiction and documentary feature films, the […]
‘The Messenger’ directed by David Blair (2015)
The Messenger follows Jack (Robert Sheehan), the titular protagonist, who delivers messages from the ghosts of the recently-deceased to their bereaved loved ones. Only he can see those ghosts. Following the murder of a prominent war correspondent Mark (Alex Wyndham), Mark’s ghost tasks Jack with giving his wife an important message. Despite a premise that is […]