Film Review by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Vortex is everything its title implies—a terrifying eddy of misfortune from which its victims are powerless to escape. It is all about the ravages of dementia, the destruction of the human mind and its effect on those who love the person so afflicted. The […]
Month: May 2022
Celebrating Cultural Diversity through Film
Neus Ballús, Catalan film maker, discusses her film ‘The Odd Job Men’ (Spain 2021) with Khalid Ali, film, and media correspondent On the 21st of May 2022, the United Nations celebrate the ‘World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development’. The Day was declared by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2002 […]
Renaissance Medicine: A Short History of European Medicine in the Sixteenth Century
Book review by Katherine D. Van Schaik Vivian Nutton. Renaissance Medicine: A Short History of European Medicine in the Sixteenth Century. Routledge, 2022. Vivian Nutton’s comprehensive Renaissance Medicine: A Short History of European Medicine in the Sixteenth Century, written largely during the pandemic, provides an overview of a century of medical transformations in Europe. Nutton […]
Scattered Limbs: A Medical Dreambook
Book Review by Neil Vickers Iain Bamforth is a physician-writer who tries to understand his life in terms of philosophy, literature, history and art. He is stupendously well-read in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish sources, which he deploys to beguiling effect in this strange and magnificent book. In a ‘Preface’ to Scattered Limbs, Bamforth […]
Families in Crisis, Futures on the Fence
Film Review by Professor Robert Abrams, Professor of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medicine, New York Life Suits Me Well, directed by Mohamed Ulad-Mohand (Morocco, France, 2021) The title of the Moroccan film Life Suits Me Well (a translation of the original French La Vie Me Va Bien) is heavily weighted with irony. Despite its hopeful-sounding title, the […]
The Doctor as Humanist: Humanism In Surgery Symposium Announcement
Symposium Announcement CFP – The Doctor As Humanist Visit the event website by following this link: Event Website Medical humanities have been rising all over the world due to the challenges posed by scientific and technological advancements that provide us with the means to treat, cure and prolong life, but not necessarily with person-centred care. […]