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 […]
Category: Book Reviews
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 […]
The Reading Room: A review of ‘A Doctor’s Dictionary’
Iain Bamforth A Doctor’s Dictionary: Writings on Culture & Medicine 2015 Manchester: Carcanet ISBN: 978 1 784100 56 8 Reviewed by Professor Alan Bleakley Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities Plymouth Peninsula School of Medicine, Plymouth University UK Iain Bamforth, by his own admission, is a writer who practices medicine. Indeed, while he appears […]
The Reading Room: A review of ‘The Spanish Flu…’
The Spanish Flu: Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918 Ryan A. Davis. Published by Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. Hardcover, 255 pages. ISBN 978-1-137-33920-1 This book is unusual in that it deals with a subject that is scarcely found among international literature in the English language, the great influenza pandemic of 1918, or Spanish Flu, so-named […]
The Reading Room: A review of ‘Medical Humanities & Medical Education: How the Medical Humanities can Shape Better Doctors’
Medical Humanities & Medical Education: How the Medical Humanities can Shape Better Doctors by Alan Bleakley. Published by Routledge, 2015. Reviewed by Dr Claire Elliott How can medical education be changed to produce better, kinder medical students? How can they develop more astute clinical skills and improved awareness of the ethical and professional […]
The Reading Room: A review of ‘Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us’
Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us by S. Lochlann Jain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. Reviewed by Mary Anglin, Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky At the age of thirty-six, Lochlann Jain embarked on a journey for which neither her anthropological training nor her upbringing as “a reticent Canadian” and the daughter […]
The Reading Room: The Lumen Journal – Call for Submissions
The Lumen is an annual Edinburgh University new writing and arts journal of the mutual dialogue between medicine, the arts and the humanities. We hope to foster creative and critical discourse on the personal experience of illness and healthcare. The Lumen will provide a space for the expression of the deeply personal narratives of the […]