Taxi ride to eternity: Review of ‘Dry, hot summers’, Directed by Sherif El Bendary Egypt, Germany, 2015, 4* Premiered at Dubai International Film Festival, December 2015, and due to screen at Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival in February 2016 Available to view on major TV channels, and to buy DVDs in late 2016 Traditional teaching in medical […]
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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 […]
The Annual Sowerby Lecture in Philosophy and Medicine
“If I had to live like you, I think I’d kill myself”: Explaining the Disability Paradox Havi Carel, Professor of Philosophy and Head of Subject, University of Bristol Comment: Brian Hurwitz, Professor of Medicine and the Arts, King’s College London Thursday, November 26, 2015. 18.30-20.00 Guy’s Campus, New Hunts House, Theatre 1 Free, […]
Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre: Sheree Rose and Martin O’Brien
Love is Still Possible in this Junkie World? A conversation between Sheree Rose and Martin O’Brien on sexuality, love death, pain and art. Birkbeck Centre for Contemporary Theatre, with support from BiGS (Birkbeck Gender and Sexuality) Friday 27 November, 5-6.30 pm, G10. Sheree Rose was born in Los Angeles, CA. She obtained her Master’s […]
The Reading Room: A review of ‘Memoirs of a woman doctor’
©D. Carpenter-Latiri portrait of Nawal El-Saadawi UK 2015 El-Saadawi, N. (2000). Memoirs of a woman doctor. London: Saqi Books. Reviewed by Dr Dora Carpenter-Latiri, Senior Lecturer, College of Arts & Humanities, University of Brighton Nawal El-Saadawi, the famous Egyptian feminist activist, trained and practised as a medical doctor, a psychiatrist and a surgeon. She is also […]
Khalid Ali: Ageing (dis)gracefully from Camden pavements to Swiss resorts
Review of “The lady in the van” directed by Nicholas Hytner, UK release 13th November 2015, and “Youth” directed by Paolo Sorrentino, UK release January 2016 “The lady in the van” and “Youth” that recently premièred at the London Film Festival (LFF) in October 2015 are two great films about “senior citizens” in two completely […]
Call for Papers – special issue of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
The editors of a forthcoming (2017) special issue of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry on “Investigating public trust in expert knowledge: ethics, narrative and engagement” are currently inviting submission of papers. The special issue will be the first of its kind to examine the ethics of public trust in expert knowledge systems in emergent […]
The Reading Room: A review of ‘A Doctor’s Dictionary’
Iain Bamforth A Doctor’s Dictionary: Writings on Culture & Medicine 2015 Manchester: Carcanet ISBN: 978 1 784100 56 8 Reviewed by Professor Alan Bleakley Emeritus Professor of Medical Education and Medical Humanities Plymouth Peninsula School of Medicine, Plymouth University UK Iain Bamforth, by his own admission, is a writer who practices medicine. Indeed, while he appears […]
The Reading Room: A review of ‘The Spanish Flu…’
The Spanish Flu: Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918 Ryan A. Davis. Published by Palgrave MacMillan, 2013. Hardcover, 255 pages. ISBN 978-1-137-33920-1 This book is unusual in that it deals with a subject that is scarcely found among international literature in the English language, the great influenza pandemic of 1918, or Spanish Flu, so-named […]