Emma Barnard MA (RCA) ‘Silence is not Golden’ ‘For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate, affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied’. Susan Sontag One […]
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Film Review: It’s Only the End of the World
It’s only the end of the world, directed by Xavier Dolan, Canada, France 2016. In UK cinemas from 24th February 2017 Reviewed by Dr Franco Ferrarini Louis (Gaspard Ulliel) is a 34-year-old gay playwright who feels an urgent need to meet his family after 12 years of estrangement, to tell them about his terminal illness […]
Book Review: True Tales of Organisational Life
True Tales of Organisational Life Barbara-Anne Wren Karnac Books Ltd, 2016 ISBN-13: 978-1-78220-189-2 Reviewed by Dr Andrew Schuman It’s stories, the psychologist Barbara-Anne Wren reminds us, “that will hold us when nothing else can”. They are humankind’s most effective way of making sense of the world – of organising and giving “a […]
Book Review: This Way Madness Lies.
This Way Madness Lies. Madness and Beyond. By Mike Jay. London: Thames and Hudson, 2016. Reviewed by Dr Allan Beveridge Published to accompany the recent Wellcome Collection Exhibition, ‘Bedlam: the asylum and beyond’, this book is packed with over 600 photographs and illustrations drawn from the archives of institutions in Europe and America, […]
Editor-in-Chief post at Medical Humanities
The Institute of Medical Ethics and BMJ are looking for the next Editor-in-Chief who can continue to shape Medical Humanities into a dynamic resource for a rapidly evolving field. Candidates should be active in the field, keen to facilitate international perspectives and maintain an awareness of trends and hot topics. The successful candidate will […]
Book Review: Thinking in Cases
Thinking in Cases by John Forrester. Published by Polity, 2016. Reviewed by Dr Neil Vickers John Forrester, who died in 2015, was the most original historian of the human sciences of his generation. His great love was the history of psychoanalysis – he was for 10 years the editor of the journal History […]
Film review: Arrival
What can aliens teach us about being human? Review of Arrival, my film of 2016 (USA, 2016, directed by Denis Villeneuve) By: Dr James Hartley, Foundation Year 2 at Brighton and Sussex University Healthcare Trust The above question is one that is commonly asked in the sci-fi genre. Think Sigourney Weaver’s portrayal […]
Blog Curator and Books Editor Opportunity
Blog Curator and Books Editor Opportunity We have a vacancy for a Blog Curator and Books Editor at Medical Humanities. It is a single, combined role as all book reviews are published on the Blog. The role involves: · Commissioning and editing content, including reviews, for the Medical Humanities Blog; · Maintaining the Medical […]
Book Review: The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities
The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities edited by Anne Whitehead and Angela Woods (general editors) with Sarah Atkinson, Jane Macnaughton and Jennifer Richards (associate editors). Published by Edinburgh University Press, 2016. Reviewed by Josie Billington, University of Liverpool ‘Critical medical humanities’, say the editors of this volume, marks a ‘second wave’ […]
Book Review: Re-Thinking Autism
Re-Thinking Autism: Diagnosis, Identity and Equality. Runswick-Cole, Katherine, Mallett, Rebecca, and Sami Timimi (Eds.). London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. 2016. Reviewed by Jennifer S. Singh Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgia Tech and author of Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science Is any stable and enduring definition of autism possible? […]