I have just returned from five days in Chicago, from a conference organised by myself and four American colleagues. Entitled Comics and Medicine: The Sequential Art of Illness, the event […]
Tag: Art
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 […]
Julian Sheather on paying attention to art, science and nature
It is a long time since I studied art history, but if I remember rightly the invention of photography is said to have contributed to the exhaustion of the realist […]
Julian Sheather: Is Prozac destroying the arts?
Do art and misery share a bed? Although we might expect art to entertain and even, at a push, to improve its audience, artists themselves are surely supposed to suffer. […]