Interview with Paul Murphy, British film maker, by Khalid Ali, Film and Media Correspondent Paul Murphy is an an Irish-born, London-based award-winning film director. His ability to swap between drama and comedy in telling stories is his way of understanding our collective unconscious, and what makes human beings tick. Paul’s films tend to focus on […]
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Every Woman and Girl Counts
Interview with Matt Jackson by Khalid Ali, Film and Media Correspondent In this podcast Mr Matt Jackson, director of the UK United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) talks about current health inequalities that still face girls and women on a global scale. He revists the vision and programme of action of the International Conference on Population […]
Indifference Kills
‘Colectiv’ directed by Alexander Nanau (Romania, Luxemburg 2019) ‘Colectiv’ opens the 24th edition of London Human Rights Watch Film Festival (LHRWFF) on 12 March 2020, https://ff.hrw.org/london Review by Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent ‘Medical Humanities’ online blogs In its 24th edition the London Human Rights Watch Film Festival (LFFHRW) comes back to the UK […]
“Normality is a Paved Road Comfortable to Walk But No Flowers Grow On It”
—Vincent Van Gogh ‘VOLARE’, Gabriele Salvatores (Italy, 2019) screening at the Italian Film Festival in London, Friday 6th March 2020 Film Review by Franco Ferrarini, gastroenterologist and film reviewer Vincent (Giulio Pranno), a sixteen-year-old boy affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), lives with his mother Elena (Valeria Golino) and her companion Mario (Diego Abatantuono) confined […]
Ectogenesis at Home? Artificial Wombs and Access to Care
Blog by Claire Horn In our accessibility series, Claire Horn reflects on the moral dilemmas presented by the advent of a new reproductive technology that allows for gestation outside the womb. —Cristina Hanganu-Bresch The last several years have seen significant progress toward the development of an artificial womb which would facilitate the survival […]
Mutual Agents of Change
Film Review by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Stolen Days (Il Ladro di Giorni), directed by Guido Lombardi (Italy 2019). Showing on Thursday 5th March in ‘Cinema made in Italy’, London. Stolen Days (Il Ladro di Giorni) can be seen as the story of a boy on the cusp of adolescence, […]
March 2020 Issue
March 2020 Standard Issue How sociophenomenology of the body problematises the ‘problem-oriented approach’ to growth hormone treatment by Maria Cristina Murano, Jenny Slatman, Kristin Zeiler Graphic illustration of impairment: science fiction, Transmetropolitan and the social model of disability by Richard Gibson Ethics in cross-cultural encounters: a medical concern? by Arild Kjell Aambø Health at the […]
How Sociophenomenology of the Body Problematises the ‘Problem-Oriented Approach’ to Growth Hormone Treatment
Article Summary by Maria Cristina Murano Idiopathic short stature is a medical diagnosis given to children who have a statistically significant short stature for unknown medical reasons. Biomedical and bioethical debates are ongoing as to whether children with idiopathic short stature should be treated with growth hormone in order to increase their height. This article […]
The 3rd The Doctor as a Humanist International Symposium
Cfp by Gonzalo Galvez (Autonomous Madrid), Jonathan McFarland (Sechenov University, Russia) Do you consider that the humanities can transform medicine, healthcare and society in the 21st Century ? Then we definitely need you to become a part of the Doctor as a Humanist, which will be celebrating its 3rd Symposium. We are an association that […]
‘Addio Infanzia’, Farewell Childhood
‘Magari’ (If only) directed by Ginevra Elkann (Italy 2019) opening the Italian Film Festival in London, 4th– 9th March 2020, www.institutfrancais.org.uk/cinema-italy Film Review by Khalid Ali, Film and media correspondent, Medical Humanities A seminal survey from the Italian Society of Paediatrics exploring the life style of more than 11,000 adolescents showed that ‘one in five […]