Blog by Dr. Teodora Manea This year, our journal’s theme is access to healthcare. In that spirit, Dr. Manea reflects on the role of medical interpreters as vital players in the process of accessing medical care in the NHS —Cristina Hanganu-Bresch In the past few decades, the number of non-English speaking patients who access […]
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Oli Otya? (“Hello?”): Life and Loss in Rural Uganda, directed by Lucy Bruell (USA, 2019) Review by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York In the opening scenes of Oli Otya?, subtitles explain that a team of nurses from St. Francis Naggalama, a rural hospital in central Uganda, travels to outlying areas to treat […]
Talking Past Dementia: TimeSlips and the Creative Aging Revolution
Video and Blog by David Ney When I was ten years old, my mom and I went to see the doctor because my grandfather was sick. He had been there for me when I was sick as a kid, and I wanted to be there for him now. Pop sat on the exam table crinkling […]
Health, Humanity and Dr. Frankenstein
Podcast interview by Brandy Schillace Today, EIC Brandy Schillace interviews Audrey Shafer, MD (she/her), Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine/VAPAHCS, as well as Staff Anesthesiologist, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. Dr. Shafer is the Director for Medicine & the Muse, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. In today’s […]
Seeking Blog Content On This Year’s Theme: Access
Announcement by Cristina Hanganu-Bresch This year’s theme for Medical Humanities-BMJ is access to health care: how does accessibility as a facet of social justice impact how people manage and make sense of their health? Access to medical services can mean many things—from insurance coverage, to social services that make medical care possible, to outright discrimination for disadvantaged […]
A Legacy of Collateral Suffering
Review of Amá (USA, 2018), directed by Lorna Tucker, and produced by Bullfrog Films Written by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell Medicine Amá, a powerful and disturbing documentary, tells the hitherto little-known story of the systematic relocation and involuntary sterilization of Native American women in the United States between 1960 and 1980. In a moving […]
Who Am I To Stop It
A documentary film on isolation, art, and transformation after brain injury directed by Cheryl Green and Cynthia Lopez (USA, 2016) Review by Karina Sturm, filmmaker and journalist Who Am I To Stop It is a feature-length documentary portraying three artists in the US who live with brain injuries by following them through their lives and […]
Stories of Guilt and Redemption: The Cinema of Atom Egoyan
Interview by Khalid Ali In this podcast Dr Khalid Ali talks to acclaimed Canadian director Atom Egoyan at the 41st edition of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) where Egoyan’s latest film ‘Guest of honour’ screened. Egoyan reflects on prominent themes in his films such as isolation, estrangement and the alienation of human beings, and […]
Khalid Ali in Conversation with Filmmaker Damon Gameau
Interview by Khalid Ali In this podcast, award-winning Australian film maker Damon Gameau talks about his new film 2040, which explores what the future could look like by the year 2040 if we embraced solutions that are currently available to improve the planet and focusing on climate, economics, technology, civil society, agriculture, and sustainability. Damon […]
Exploring Hyperacusis: Ethno-Graphic Podcast
Visual Podcast by Luca M. Damiani Exploring Hyperacusis : Ethno-Graphic Podcast from Luca Damiani on Vimeo. In Exploring Hyperacusis: Ethno-Graphic Podcast, I look at the interaction with my conditions, focusing on auto-ethnographic data based on my acoustic condition of hyperacusis, as well as my asperger’s neurological condition. This work is shared as a diary, combining […]