The American television network Showtime is becoming synonymous with highly acclaimed drama and post 9/11 series Homeland (2011) is no exception. Barack Obama is reportedly a huge fan of the programme and millions of UK viewers watched the tense series finale on Sunday 6 May. The plot concerns Marine Sergeant Nicholas Brody who has recently returned […]
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Joe Collier on being a male
The sheer plasticity in the way we relate to one another amazes. Over any day I could be a father, a husband, a son (in-law), a teacher, a professor, a lecturer, a tutor, a supervisor, a doctor, a patient, a carer, a friend, a clown, an entertainer, a legal expert/opinion, a witness, a government advisor, […]
Julian Sheather: “Surgeon’s Hall” – On art, medicine and gender
It is fairly widely accepted that medicine is both a science and an art, that it lays claim to a rigorous evidence-based method, while recognising the impact of irreducibly human capacities on healing, capacities like emotion and belief that do not fit easily into a world of verifiability and fact. As a science it aspires […]