Reflection by Lucas Axiotakis M.D., Kensington Cochran, Jude Okonkwo, W. Conor Rork and Owen Lewis, M.D. Within the medical curriculum at the Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, there is a well-articulated program of Narrative Medicine Training from the first through final semesters (Charon et al, 1995, 2016; Devlin et al, 2015; Cunningham et […]
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UK Media Responses to HIV through the Lens of COVID-19: A Study of Multidirectional Memory
Article Summary by Fran Pheasant-Kelly Covid-19 affected, and continues to affect us all to some degree. For those who were around in the 1980s, there are aspects of the virus that chillingly recall the initial terrors of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Such connections are evident in news media coverage of Covid-19 – this article examines those […]
Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship
Announcement from the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge To me CRASSH has been a unique platform and probably a once-in-a-life opportunity to explore transdisciplinary research. – Dr Ronita Bardhan, Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow (2018-19) Applications for the 2024 – 2025 Fellowship are now open. […]
The Medicalisation of Exhaustion: Kruschen Salts in Early Twentieth-Century Southern Africa
Article Summary by Perseverence Madhuku How did exhaustion in British colonies become a medical problem to be fixed, remedied, and eradicated? In the first half of the twentieth century, Kruschen salts, a laxative and diuretic tonic, circulated in Britain and its colonies. It was advertised as a cure for a range of diseases and […]
Cristina Mejia Visperas, Skin Theory: Visual Culture and the Postwar Prison Laboratory
Announcement from the Levan Institute for the Humanities Upcoming Levan Book Chat Thursday, December 7 | 12:00 PM | Virtual Cristina Mejia Visperas is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Southern California. She will be joined in conversation by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu (NYU) and Anthony Hatch (Wesleyan University), moderated by Nayan Shah […]
September 2023 Standard Issue
Ethics and medical specimens Brandy Schillace Human-centred design, disability and bioethics Matthew Wolf-Meyer The use of an object: exploring physician burnout through object relations theory Jo Winning Reversing the medical humanities [read the article summary] Helene Scott-Fordsmand ‘Why They Laugh At Us?’: the functions and ethics of humour in Singaporean theatrical depictions of stigmatised illness […]
Interview with Dr. Keisha S. Ray on Anti-black Racism and Black Bioethics
Interview by Jared N. Smith, PhD and Keisha Ray, PhD In many key respects, the history of bioethics is a record of the abuse of Black bodies and minds. We are taught about how Black men were experimented on in the US Public Health syphilis study; we learn how J. Marion Sims’s misogynoir contributed to […]
Women’s Global Health in Film
Announcement by Professor Hassan Shehata Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists Thursday 30th November 2023 10-18 Union Street, London, SE1 1SZ Led by the RCOG Senior and Global Health Vice President,Professor Hassan Shehata, in collaboration with MedFest, this unique event will showcase a series of critically acclaimed and thought-provoking short films that shed light on […]
Fifty Years of Scary Scanners: Time to Exorcise a Movie Cliché?
Blog by Michael Jackson, Chair British Society for the History of Radiology (BSHR), and Arpan K Banerjee, Chair International Society for the History of Radiology (ISHRAD) This year, 2023, saw the passing of acclaimed movie director William Friedkin, whose films include The French Connection (1971), and Sorcerer (1977), and To live and die in LA […]
Enduring Love, Everlasting Memories
The Eternal Memory (La Memoria Infinita) (Maite Alberdi, Chile, 2023), winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in Documentary Competition at Sundance Film Festival 2023 Review by Khalid Ali, film, and media correspondent Released in the UK Friday 10th November Many films portraying dementia focus on the loss of identity of affected individuals, the […]