Revisiting empathy- Medicine and asylum seekers Review of On call – France, 2016, directed by Alice Diop Showing at the BFI- London Film Festival on Wednesday 12th, and Friday 14th October 2016, London http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff Reviewed by Dr Khalid Ali, Screening Room Editor In the current international refugee crisis, no country is immune […]
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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 […]
Book Review: Aliceheimer’s
Aliceheimer’s. Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass By Dana Walrath. Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. Reviewed by Dr Martina Zimmermann. Dana Walrath’s Aliceheimer’s. Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass is the second graphic memoir by an adult child about her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease, after Sarah Leavitt’s Tangle. A Story About Alzheimer’s, […]
Book Review: The Slumbering Masses
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life (Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2012) Reviewed by Steffan Blayney Need a quick recharge? Power up with a power nap. Geniuses like Dali and Einstein loved sneaking in some extra ZZZs. Opening up my Mozilla Firefox web browser, a […]
Film Review: Patient
The ten rules of doctors’ engagement Review of Patient, Colombia, 2015, directed by Jorge Caballero Screening at the London Film Festival, 15 and 16th October 2016 https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/seatSelect.asp https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/mapSelect.asp Reviewed by Dr Khalid Ali, Screening Room Editor The Oxford Dictionary defines the word ‘patient’ as ‘a person receiving or registered to receive […]
Book Review: Dad’s Not All There Anymore
This is the first of a series of comic book reviews on the theme of Dementia. Reviews of Sarah Leavitt’s Tangles and Dana Walrath’s Aliceheimer’s to follow. Dad’s Not All There Anymore by Alex Demetris Reviewed by Harriet Earle As an academic, I have a love-hate relationship with Wikipedia. I […]
Global Humanities – Finding New Narratives
Conflict, Culture, and the Clinic: Finding new narratives Ayesha Ahmad In a recent publication “Syria Speaks”, the book volume is a collection of various forms of narrative that have been born in conflict. In reflection, there is a line that says: “War ignites people’s anger, and acts against culture, which is the work […]
Reclaiming Reflection: Creative Writing and the Medical Humanities (3)
Reminiscence Bumps: self-mythology and the landscapes of the mind by Eleanor Holmes When I think about the landscapes of the mind, I recall the undulations of the brain’s surface. The ridges and valleys of cortex, the gyri and sulci I had learnt about in my neuroanatomy classes aged nineteen. Those white plastic […]
Reclaiming Reflection: Creative Writing and the Medical Humanities (2)
Creative Non-Fiction: imagination and the nature of truth by Eleanor Holmes A copy of Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table lay on my bookshelf for years, a gift from my father, one of his favourite texts. The fact that I’d not actually read it until my creative writing tutor at Newcastle University, the author […]
Reclaiming Reflection: Creative Writing and the Medical Humanities (1)
Poetry and Reflection: a powerful tool for learning This post is part of a series over the next three days on the theme of Creative Writing and Medical Humanities by Dr Eleanor Holmes (pen name Eliot North). As a GP Tutor I’ve delivered seminars on the patient centred medicine (PCM) component of Newcastle […]