And so it goes…this thing called life Fergus Shanahan This Living and Immortal Thing By Austin Duffy Granta Books, 2016 If authors write what they know, then Austin Duffy knows a lot, but This Living and Immortal Thing, his first novel, blends experience with fiction and offers more than informed opinion […]
Category: Book Reviews
The Reading Room: ‘Deaf Gain’
Deaf Gain: Raising the Stakes for Human Diversity H-Dirksen L. Bauman and Joseph J. Murray, Editors University of Minnesota Press, 2014 Reviewed by Dr Paul Dakin, GP Trainer in North London with research interest in the representation of d/Deaf people This book challenges the commonly held notion that deafness is an existence […]
The Reading Room: Jenny Downham’s ‘Unbecoming’
Unbecoming by Jenny Downham. Published by David Fickling Books, 2015. Reviewed by Katie Hodgkinson, Medical Student They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but the cover of Unbecoming is beautiful, and the story inside even more so. I’m generally a bit wary of Jenny Downham as an author because I did […]
Take Me With You: the Museum of Friendship, Remembrance and Loss
Take Me With You: the Museum of Friendship, Remembrance and Loss 6.00-8.30 pm, Thursday 18 February 2016 at the Chowen Lecture Theatre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer Campus BN1 9PX Museum open from 6.00 pm Clare Best and Tim Andrews in conversation (+q&a) 6.30-7.30 pm Drinks reception from 7.30 pm Museum open until 8.30 […]
The Reading Room: Clive James’s ‘Sentenced to Life’
Sentenced to Life by Clive James. Published by Picador, 2015. Reviewed by Dr Sam Guglani. On a ward round, I notice a colleague speaking with one of the palliative care nurses – about a patient, or perhaps about processes, maybe even about a personal matter. His posture, and what I can hear of his […]
The Reading Room: Ronald Britton’s ‘Between Mind and Brain’
Between Mind and Brain: Models of the Mind and Models in the Mind by Ronald Britton. Published by Karnac, 2015. Reviewed by Dr Neil Vickers. Ronald Britton is one of the most significant psychoanalytic theorists writing today. Now retired from clinical practice, though still active in training, he is perhaps best known […]
The Reading Room: Erik Parens’ ‘Shaping Our Selves…’ reviewed
Shaping Our Selves: On Technology, Flourishing and a Habit of Thinking by Erik Parens. Oxford University Press. 2014. xi+200 pages. Hbk. ISBN: 9780190211745. Reviewed by Nathan Emmerich, Visiting Research Fellow, Queen’s University Belfast. On the face of it Shaping Our Selves is about the way biomedical technologies, such as neurochemical enhancements and reconstructive […]
The Annual Sowerby Lecture in Philosophy and Medicine
“If I had to live like you, I think I’d kill myself”: Explaining the Disability Paradox Havi Carel, Professor of Philosophy and Head of Subject, University of Bristol Comment: Brian Hurwitz, Professor of Medicine and the Arts, King’s College London Thursday, November 26, 2015. 18.30-20.00 Guy’s Campus, New Hunts House, Theatre 1 Free, […]
Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre: Sheree Rose and Martin O’Brien
Love is Still Possible in this Junkie World? A conversation between Sheree Rose and Martin O’Brien on sexuality, love death, pain and art. Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, with support from BiGS (Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality) Friday 27 November, 5-6.30 pm, G10. Sheree Rose was born in Los Angeles, CA. She obtained her Master’s […]
The Reading Room: A review of ‘Memoirs of a woman doctor’
©D. Carpenter-Latiri portrait of Nawal El-Saadawi UK 2015 El-Saadawi, N. (2000). Memoirs of a woman doctor. London: Saqi Books. Reviewed by Dr Dora Carpenter-Latiri, Senior Lecturer, College of Arts & Humanities, University of Brighton Nawal El-Saadawi, the famous Egyptian feminist activist, trained and practised as a medical doctor, a psychiatrist and a surgeon. She is also […]