It is an exciting time for Medical Humanities and, as part of its evolution, the Book Section is changing and expanding. After the next issue, the Book Section will become “The Reading Room” and appear in both in the hard copy of the journal and on the Blog. Claire Elliott, who has looked after the Book Section […]
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To Have Been What I Always Am, So Changed From What I Was: Reflections on Altered States and Beckett
London is currently home to productions of four Samuel Beckett plays. A trilogy – Not I, Footfalls and Rockaby – performed by the extraordinary Lisa Dwan, is at the Royal Court Theatre in advance of a transfer to the Duchess Theatre. Across town, Juliet Stevenson takes on the role of Winnie in Happy Days […]
Call for Papers: Fashionable Diseases: Medicine, Literature and Culture, ca. 1660-1832
An International Interdisciplinary Conference Newcastle and Northumbria Universities 3rd – 5th July 2014 Keynote speakers include: Professor Helen Deutsch, ‘Diseases of Writing’ University of California, Los Angeles Author of Resemblance and Disgrace: Alexander Pope and the Deformation of Culture Dr David Shuttleton, ‘The Fashioning of Fashionable Diseases in the Eighteenth Century’ University of Glasgow Author of Smallpox […]
Guest Piece: Joseph Ting: “Medicine Now, at the Wellcome Collection London: Obesity, The Body, Malaria and Genomes”.
Medicine Now, a permanent exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, presents a range of ideas about science and medicine since Sir Henry Wellcome’s death in 1936. Designed to broaden engagement with medical science beyond the narrow confines of the laboratory or clinic, Medicine Now presents a cogent multidisciplinary view of four topics, Obesity, The […]
In memory of Dr Sue Eckstein, Editor-in-Chief of Medical Humanities
It is with much sadness that we report the death of Dr Sue Eckstein, the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Medical Humanities. Sue Eckstein was an outstanding appointment. Her commitment to, and expertise in, the health humanities meant that she was the perfect person to lead the journal and we were delighted when she agreed to become Editor. In […]
Alam Anjum: Emotional Warfare: From Doctors to Patients
Whilst watching the film, “The Doctor”, released in the year 1991, I was struck by the same old question in my mind, whose answer I have been looking for several years that; to what extent does a doctor need to be attached or detached from their patients as persons? […]
From lecture halls to cinema screens: learning about the psyche through films
Last year, the round-up of medical humanities-related films at the London Film Festival (LFF) centred on the theme of old age. This year, to synchronise with Mental Health Day (which fell on 10th October 2013, the second of the twelve days of the LFF), the mind and its mishaps serve as our cluster-point. […]
Film Review: Abuse of Weakness, France 2013
The impact of stroke on the lives of patients and their carers seen in the French film “Amour” directed by Michael Haneke was an eye opener to audience around the world, and justifying the film winning the Oscar for the best foreign film in 2012. As stroke organisations around the world celebrate the “World Stroke […]
Event: Anatomy for Life
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Ayesha Ahmad: The Sky Surrendered Your Story, and I Held It
Between the doctor and the patient, there is a void; a chasm of the unknown, territories of wild terrain, fertile for a relationship to grow, to nurture and become a healing. The healing. The healing comes as an ending; a termination of the settlement of the pain identified by the bearer being recognised by the […]