Unbecoming by Jenny Downham. Published by David Fickling Books, 2015. Reviewed by Katie Hodgkinson, Medical Student They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but the cover of Unbecoming is beautiful, and the story inside even more so. I’m generally a bit wary of Jenny Downham as an author because I did […]
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Take Me With You: the Museum of Friendship, Remembrance and Loss 6.00-8.30 pm, Thursday 18 February 2016 at the Chowen Lecture Theatre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Falmer Campus BN1 9PX Museum open from 6.00 pm Clare Best and Tim Andrews in conversation (+q&a) 6.30-7.30 pm Drinks reception from 7.30 pm Museum open until 8.30 […]
The Reading Room: Clive James’s ‘Sentenced to Life’
Sentenced to Life by Clive James. Published by Picador, 2015. Reviewed by Dr Sam Guglani. On a ward round, I notice a colleague speaking with one of the palliative care nurses – about a patient, or perhaps about processes, maybe even about a personal matter. His posture, and what I can hear of his […]
Cinema of splendour: Reporting from Dubai international Film Festival (DIFF) 2015
Cinema of splendour: Reporting from Dubai international Film Festival (DIFF) 2015 Dr Khalid Ali, Screening Room Editor When I visited Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF https://www.dubaifilmfest.com/) for the first time in December 2015, I was not expecting to find so many films exploring health and well-being from all over the world. The variety of films […]
Film Review: Wake in Fright
‘Wake in fright’ directed by Canadian director Ted Kotcheff’s film is considered a masterpiece for its innovative, daring storyline, psychological focus and exceptional visual imagery [1]. The film premiered in Cannes in 1971 to great critical acclaim, but in its homeland of Australia (where the film was set), it was poorly received. […]
The Reading Room: Ronald Britton’s ‘Between Mind and Brain’
Between Mind and Brain: Models of the Mind and Models in the Mind by Ronald Britton. Published by Karnac, 2015. Reviewed by Dr Neil Vickers. Ronald Britton is one of the most significant psychoanalytic theorists writing today. Now retired from clinical practice, though still active in training, he is perhaps best known […]
Ageing, Embodiment and the Self: A One-Day AHRC Symposium
Friday March 18th 2016, Milburn House, University of Warwick 10am-5pm This event, run under the aegis of the AHRC Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind project, will explore experiences of ageing and dementia from a number of perspectives–medical, literary, philosophical, literary, and performative–thinking in particular about the embodied experience of old age and dementia, the perceived […]
Taxi Ride To Eternity: Review of ‘Dry, Hot Summers’,
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Ayesha Ahmad: Spirituality in Conflict
This is a story about spirituality in conflict. As with all stories, there are two sides to the tale. There is, on one side, the battle to find and keep the spirit during conflict, when lives and worlds and families and homes are falling apart and disappearing. On the other side, there is the spirituality […]
The Reading Room: Erik Parens’ ‘Shaping Our Selves…’ reviewed
Shaping Our Selves: On Technology, Flourishing and a Habit of Thinking by Erik Parens. Oxford University Press. 2014. xi+200 pages. Hbk. ISBN: 9780190211745. Reviewed by Nathan Emmerich, Visiting Research Fellow, Queen’s University Belfast. On the face of it Shaping Our Selves is about the way biomedical technologies, such as neurochemical enhancements and reconstructive […]