In the first few scenes of the pilot episode of ABC’s new show, The Good Doctor, the protagonist, Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore of Bates Motel fame) saves a young boy who falls unconscious after being hit by a huge glass sign at an airport. The viewers later learn that Murphy has autism and savant […]
Category: Reviews
Reviews of media other than books, e.g. exhibitions.
Silent Rage
Review of Wrath of Silence directed by Xin Yukun, China 2017 Screened at London Film Festival 2017, seeking UK distribution in 2018 Review by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Wrath of Silence, an ‘indie’ film from China tells a painful story. It is filled with starkly incompatible ideas and images, juxtaposing […]
Exploring Disability in Film
Our film and media correspondent, Dr Khalid Ali, reports on the London Film Festival which takes place from the 4th to the 15th of October 2017. Andrei Tarkovsky, the Russian director, once said that ‘art portrays the desire of human beings to achieve a balance between their materialistic needs and moral standards’. The attitudes of […]
Primum Non Nocere: An Artist’s Perspective into the World of Medicine
This guest blog post comes from Emma Barnard, a London based visual artist specialising in lens-based media and interdisciplinary practice and research within Fine Art and Medicine. Her solo retrospective exhibition Primum Non Nocere, focuses on the patient experience. The show has its private viewing on the 15th September 18.00-21.00, and then runs from the 16th September […]
Exhibition Review: Transplant and Life
‘Transplant and Life’ Exhibition, Royal College of Surgeons, 22 November 2016 – 20 May 2017 John Wynne and Tim Wainwright Review by Emma Barnard Having on a couple of occasions visited the captivating, slightly morbid Hunterian Museum, housed in the majestic Royal College of Surgeons, Lincolns Inn Fields, my initial thoughts when being asked to […]
Art review: chronic conditions and the digital age
Changing Lanes: Art in long term conditions in the digital age – new ways to adapt By Shanali Perera Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases are the largest growing burden of long term disability in the UK, affecting over 10 million adults. The concept of empowering patients to better engage with self-management of their long-term conditions is changing […]
Art Review: Visions of Multiple Sclerosis
Hannah Laycocks’s Visions of Multiple Sclerosis: Perceiving Identity Reviewed by Shahd Alshammari, PhD. When artists’ work is considered provocative, you usually think that their choice of subject is taboo. While certainly not “taboo”, the disabled body, and even more interestingly the “invisible disabled body”, in itself a paradox, is a subject that medical […]
Exhibition Review: Rest & Its Discontents
Rest & Its Discontents Exhibition Curated by Robert Devcic, founder of GV Art London Mile End Art Pavilion, 30 September until 30 October 2016 Reviewed by Natasha Feiner Modern life is busy, exhausting, and stressful. Yet, rest remains as important as ever. But what does it mean to rest in the modern […]
THIS IS A VOICE at Wellcome Collection reviewed
‘His Masters Voice’. Painting by Francis Barraud, 1919. Credit:Courtesy of the EMI Group Archive Trust THIS IS A VOICE Wellcome Collection, 14 April – 31 July 2016 Reviewed by Steven Kenny Approaching the exhibition entrance of THIS IS A VOICE at the Wellcome Collection, it is easy to think the voice is treated […]
The Screening Room: a review of the Lebanese film Ghadi
Music overcoming disability – Ghadi, Lebanon, 2013, directed by Amin Dora Reviewed by Dr Reem Gaafar, a Sudanese doctor, writer, filmmaker and graphic designer A special screening will take place at the Polish Cultural Centre, 238 King Street, Hammersmith, London W6 0RF, Sapphire Room, 2nd Floor, at 8pm Friday 3rd June 2016. To book […]