One of the world’s most experienced fistula surgeons is illiterate. I found that out when I went to a screening of a short film called Fistula Hospital: Healing and Hope […]
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Sally Carter: A film premiere at the Hunterian Museum
I headed to the Hunterian Museum in London to see the UK premiere of a film about donating bodies to medical science. It was raining, no red carpets were to […]
Sally Carter on maternal health – with a touch of glamour
Eighteen months ago I had my first child, and ever since I’ve loved listening to other people’s birth stories – long, short, blissful, or terrifying – I’m all ears. I got a ticket […]
Sally Carter on the Council of Science Editors conference
I went to the Council of Science Editors conference in Atlanta, which was snazzily entitled “The Changing Climate of Scientific Publishing: The Heat is On.” Atlanta was indeed hot. I […]
Sally Carter: George Bush and female circumcision
Last week I went to an interview with a writer who I’d never heard of. And now I can’t stop thinking about her, which of her books I should read, […]
Sally Carter and Birte Twisselmann: Imagining synaesthesia
Mixing of the senses Synaesthesia, this “mixing of the senses,” is a difficult thing to describe. I have read David Eagleman’s editorial and an anonymous patient’s and psychiatrist Steve Logdail’s […]