Christina Crosby, A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain. NYU Press, 2016. Reviewed by Ayesha Ahmad There is a paradox in Professor Christina Crosby’s biography A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain–the paralysis that constrained her body so suddenly seems to have freed the language that we all possess and contain but which is generally […]
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Art Review: Visions of Multiple Sclerosis
Hannah Laycocks’s Visions of Multiple Sclerosis: Perceiving Identity Reviewed by Shahd Alshammari, PhD. When artists’ work is considered provocative, you usually think that their choice of subject is taboo. While certainly not “taboo”, the disabled body, and even more interestingly the “invisible disabled body”, in itself a paradox, is a subject that medical […]
Book Review: Multiple Autisms
Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science, by Jennifer S. Singh. University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Reviewed by Patrick Danner Ph.D. Student, University of Louisville, Rhetoric and Composition Jennifer S. Singh’s Multiple Autisms: Spectrums of Advocacy and Genomic Science weaves together several moving pieces surrounding autism research over the past 40+ […]
Book Review: This Mortal Coil
Fay Bound Alberti, This Mortal Coil: the human body in history and culture, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016) Reviewed by Hazel Croft We all have stories to tell about our bodies. They are, as Fay Bound Alberti writes, ‘the inescapable material reality we live with and in.’ In today’s scientific and medical […]
Film Review: On Call
Revisiting empathy- Medicine and asylum seekers Review of On call – France, 2016, directed by Alice Diop Showing at the BFI- London Film Festival on Wednesday 12th, and Friday 14th October 2016, London http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff Reviewed by Dr Khalid Ali, Screening Room Editor In the current international refugee crisis, no country is immune […]
Exhibition Review: Rest & Its Discontents
Rest & Its Discontents Exhibition Curated by Robert Devcic, founder of GV Art London Mile End Art Pavilion, 30 September until 30 October 2016 Reviewed by Natasha Feiner Modern life is busy, exhausting, and stressful. Yet, rest remains as important as ever. But what does it mean to rest in the modern […]
Book Review: Aliceheimer’s
Aliceheimer’s. Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass By Dana Walrath. Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. Reviewed by Dr Martina Zimmermann. Dana Walrath’s Aliceheimer’s. Alzheimer’s Through the Looking Glass is the second graphic memoir by an adult child about her mother’s Alzheimer’s disease, after Sarah Leavitt’s Tangle. A Story About Alzheimer’s, […]
Book Review: The Slumbering Masses
Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer, The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine, and Modern American Life (Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2012) Reviewed by Steffan Blayney Need a quick recharge? Power up with a power nap. Geniuses like Dali and Einstein loved sneaking in some extra ZZZs. Opening up my Mozilla Firefox web browser, a […]
Film Review: Patient
The ten rules of doctors’ engagement Review of Patient, Colombia, 2015, directed by Jorge Caballero Screening at the London Film Festival, 15 and 16th October 2016 https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/seatSelect.asp https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/mapSelect.asp Reviewed by Dr Khalid Ali, Screening Room Editor The Oxford Dictionary defines the word ‘patient’ as ‘a person receiving or registered to receive […]
Book Review: Dad’s Not All There Anymore
This is the first of a series of comic book reviews on the theme of Dementia. Reviews of Sarah Leavitt’s Tangles and Dana Walrath’s Aliceheimer’s to follow. Dad’s Not All There Anymore by Alex Demetris Reviewed by Harriet Earle As an academic, I have a love-hate relationship with Wikipedia. I […]