Book Review by Swati Joshi Spencer, Danielle. Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pages: 369. ISBN 978-0-19-751076-6. Danielle Spencer’s Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity (2021) is the strong jet stream that shudders the “biopathological” (8) gaze compelling us to “locate the pathology—in ourselves” (xi). Her research […]
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September 2021 Standard Issue
Gut feelings: depression as an embodied and affective phenomenon in Houellebecq’s Serotonin Jenny Slatman, Inge van de Ven The rationales for and challenges with employing arts-based health services research (ABHSR): a qualitative systematic review of primary studies [read the article summary] Umair Majid, Sujane Kandasamy An intellectual history of suffering in the Encyclopedia of Bioethics, […]
Nelly: An Egyptian Artistic Icon
Blog by Khalid Ali, Film and Media Correspondent For those who are not familiar with the iconic Egyptian actress, singer, dancer and choreographer Nelly (Figure 1), think of three glamorous legends, Audrey Hepburn, Liza Minnelli and Marion Cotillard; Nelly has a lot in common with each one of them. The elegance and beauty of Hepburn, […]
Passively Dying While Still Alive
Interview by Khalid Ali, Film and Media Correspondent ‘You Will Die At Twenty’ (Amjad Abu Alala, Sudan, 2019) winner of Best Debut Film – Venice Film Festival, and Best First Film, Best Screenplay, Fipresci Prize- Carthage Film Festival 2019. In UK cinemas from Friday 12th November, http://www.newwavefilms.co.uk/view-film-detail.html?viewListing=MjE5&cat=1 Based on the Sudanese writer Hammour Ziada’s short […]
A Primer on Compassionate Care
Film Review by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Review of ‘Limbo’ directed by Lotje Sodderland, UK, 2021 Limbo is a short film by Lotje Sodderland, a director best known for the celebrated account of her own hemorrhagic stroke in My Beautiful Broken Brain.[1] Before viewing Limbo, another documentary that portrays real people, […]
We’re Not Broken: Changing the Conversation around Autism with Eric Garcia
Podcast with Eric Garcia by Brandy Schillace “We’re Not Broken is a landmark book at a crucial moment in history, when autistic people are finally being recognized as the ultimate authority on their own lives. Surveying the whole autism landscape -from federal policy to intimate relationships -with heart, insight, and wit, Garcia’s book will inspire […]
‘And Then There Was Hope’
Film Review by Khalid Ali, Film and Media Correspondent Review of ‘A Bird Flew In’ (Kirsty Bell, UK 2021) screening at Raindance London Film Festival on 5 November at Curzon Soho (https://raindance.org/festival-programme/a-bird-flew-in/), and available UK-wide via Curzon Home Cinema 6 – 8 November in Raindance’s digital programme. On the 23rd of March 2020, Boris Johnson, […]
Listen without Prejudice
Film Review by Khalid Ali, Film and Media Correspondent ‘Listen’ (Anna Rocha de Sousa, Portugal, UK, 2020) showing on Saturday 30th October at 29th Raindance Film Festival, https://raindance.org/festival-programme/listen/, and then available for 3 days UK-wide via Curzon Home Cinema https://homecinema.curzon.com/film/listen/ ‘Listen’ is a testament to the fact that film can be a powerful medium for […]
The Self-Help Compulsion: Searching for Advice in Modern Literature
Book Review by Laura Grace Simpkins Beth Blum. Columbia University Press. 2020. ISBN 9780231194921. During my teenage years, I was an avid reader of Stieg Larsson’s scandi noir trilogy Millennium, best known for its first title, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005). I loved the main character, Lisbeth Salander, and a few might be […]
Reflections on Childhood Trauma, Creativity and Mental Well-Being
Podcast with Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri ‘The most beautiful boy in the world’ film is released on DVD & Blu-ray / digital platforms on 11th October. In this podcast, Kristina Lindström and Kristian Petri (Swedish film makers) reflect on their documentary film ‘The most beautiful boy in the world’ (2021) and their professional relationship with the film’s protagonist, […]