Announcement from the Levan Institute for the Humanities Upcoming Levan Book Chat Thursday, December 7 | 12:00 PM | Virtual Cristina Mejia Visperas is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Southern California. She will be joined in conversation by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu (NYU) and Anthony Hatch (Wesleyan University), moderated by Nayan Shah […]
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September 2023 Standard Issue
Ethics and medical specimens Brandy Schillace Human-centred design, disability and bioethics Matthew Wolf-Meyer The use of an object: exploring physician burnout through object relations theory Jo Winning Reversing the medical humanities [read the article summary] Helene Scott-Fordsmand ‘Why They Laugh At Us?’: the functions and ethics of humour in Singaporean theatrical depictions of stigmatised illness […]
Interview with Dr. Keisha S. Ray on Anti-black Racism and Black Bioethics
Interview by Jared N. Smith, PhD and Keisha Ray, PhD In many key respects, the history of bioethics is a record of the abuse of Black bodies and minds. We are taught about how Black men were experimented on in the US Public Health syphilis study; we learn how J. Marion Sims’s misogynoir contributed to […]
Women’s Global Health in Film
Announcement by Professor Hassan Shehata Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists Thursday 30th November 2023 10-18 Union Street, London, SE1 1SZ Led by the RCOG Senior and Global Health Vice President,Professor Hassan Shehata, in collaboration with MedFest, this unique event will showcase a series of critically acclaimed and thought-provoking short films that shed light on […]
Fifty Years of Scary Scanners: Time to Exorcise a Movie Cliché?
Blog by Michael Jackson, Chair British Society for the History of Radiology (BSHR), and Arpan K Banerjee, Chair International Society for the History of Radiology (ISHRAD) This year, 2023, saw the passing of acclaimed movie director William Friedkin, whose films include The French Connection (1971), and Sorcerer (1977), and To live and die in LA […]
Enduring Love, Everlasting Memories
The Eternal Memory (La Memoria Infinita) (Maite Alberdi, Chile, 2023), winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in Documentary Competition at Sundance Film Festival 2023 Review by Khalid Ali, film, and media correspondent Released in the UK Friday 10th November Many films portraying dementia focus on the loss of identity of affected individuals, the […]
On Poetry, Disability, and the Power of Medical Humanities
A Discussion with Kimberly Campanello Kimberly Campanello, an academic, creative writer, and poet, was diagnosed with Young Onset Parkinson’s in 2021. She has been awarded a Developing Your Creative Practice Grant by Arts Council England to support her writing of chronic illness and disability. Campanello is presently Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds, and […]
Candid and Caring Lessons in the Realities of Death
Book Review by Dr. Isabella Watts What Remains? Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2022. ISBN-13: 978-1645020509). In What Remains? Life, Death and the Human Art of Undertaking Rupert Callender weaves information about the funeral industry with autobiographical experiences to share important lessons about the profession. […]
Reflections on Teaching Poetry to Medical Students
Reflection by Owen Lewis Since 2017, I have taught an elective course to second semester medical students on poetry reading and craft. It is a six-week elective, three hours per week, one of about a dozen arts electives offered to the students including photography, comic strip writing/drawing, studio drawing, playwriting, and others. The choice of […]
Saluting Our Sisters from Sudan and South Sudan
Film Review by Khalid Ali, film and media correspondent Goodbye Julia (Mohamed Kordofani, Sudan, 2023), screening on 14th and 15th October at the London Film Festival, https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff//online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=goodbye-julia-lff23 Winner of the Freedom Prize, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival 2023. Alert: this review contains spoilers The riots, looting, and violence that erupted in Khartoum in 2005 […]