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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? […]
Film Review: Dubai International Film Festival
United by film in United Arab Emirates An overview of Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), 7-14th December 2016, https://dubaifilmfest.com/en/page/223/diff16.html Dr Khalid Ali, Screening room editor Cinema can be a contemporary mirror of our society as film-makers tell their stories reflecting on universal political, social, and economic challenges. Health and well-being were prominent themes in the […]
Institute of Medical Ethics Conference 2017: Call for Papers
4th IME Summer Conference, June 2017 Building on the success of three previous conferences held in Edinburgh, Newcastle and London, the 4th Institute of Medical Ethics (IME) Summer Conference will take place on the 15th and 16th of June in Liverpool. Two changes have been made to the conference format for 2017. First, the Research Committee […]
Film Review: Dear Zindagi
Julia Roberts meets Sigmund Freud in Goa: A review of Dear Zindagi, directed by Gauri Shinde, India 2016, 4* Currently in general release in UK cinemas Reviewed by Dr Khalid Ali, Screening room editor Bollywood cinema has secured its international box-office appeal with a well known formula of combining action, melodrama, song, and dance in […]
Global Humanities: Talking Taboo
When Talking is Taboo by Ayesha Ahmad In this piece, I want to talk about what it was like to be a panellist at a recent event strategically entitled “Talking Taboo” at the School of Oriental and African Studies. I spoke for ten minutes; ten minutes that represented a life time. I began the introduction […]
Politics and Medicine
Clinicians should understand how they can use the ballot box to advance their patients’ health interests. Jacob King, Deniz Kaya Medical Students, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry As a health professional working in a sterile environment one might easily find themselves feeling disparately removed from the slimy world of politics. But sadly we […]
Global Humanities: On Being Invisible
Ines Ongenda – A Personal Reflection In September 2015 I started a Master of Science in Global Health and Development at a leading UK institution. My background was in biological sciences and I was your typical aspiring medical doctor who had a strong interest in global health and wanted to explore and learn […]
Film review: Mannequin
The Banality of Evil – Review of Mannequin, Egypt, 2015, directed by Dr Mina Elnaggar Reviewed by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Mannequin is a short, terrifying film with ambitions as large as its 7-minute running time is brief. The action starts immediately: An unnamed man who must […]