{"id":37,"date":"2008-12-30T03:03:09","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T02:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-12-30T03:03:09","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T02:03:09","slug":"human-identity-in-the-age-of-bio-science-two-gems-from-radio-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2008\/12\/30\/human-identity-in-the-age-of-bio-science-two-gems-from-radio-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Human Identity in the Age of Bio-science: two gems from Radio 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As civilians in both Gaza and Israel spend another day living and dying in fear and surrounded by hate, Ali Abbas, a young man who as a child lost 16 members of his family and both his arms in the Iraq conflict, \u00a0tells reporter Hugh Sykes his story. Ali&#8217;s story reminds us of the human beings who make up the statistics. His dignity, fortitude, and good-humoured resilience are both humbling and hopeful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00g4g9j\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b00g4g9j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on Start the Week, Andrew Marr and guests explore human identity in the age of bio-science. A perfect medical humanities end to the year. Follow this link and click on &#8216;this week&#8217;s programme&#8217; to listen in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/factual\/starttheweek_20081215.shtml\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio4\/factual\/starttheweek_20081215.shtml<\/a><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As civilians in both Gaza and Israel spend another day living and dying in fear and surrounded by hate, Ali Abbas, a young man who as a child lost 16 members of his family and both his arms in the Iraq conflict, \u00a0tells reporter Hugh Sykes his story. Ali&#8217;s story reminds us of the human [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2008\/12\/30\/human-identity-in-the-age-of-bio-science-two-gems-from-radio-4\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}