Reading Closely: Bodies and Environments

Anna Ovaska and Kaisa Kortekallio examine the ways close reading can be used as a method for approaching vulnerable bodies and environments.

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Creating A Big Fat Medical Utopia (Part Two)

The Lady Bears, fat activists, educators and artists JDP and Sookie Bardwell, continues their practical guide to creating a 'a fat medical utopia'. The second part focuses on medical education

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Creating a Big Fat Medical Utopia (Part One)

The Lady Bears, fat activists, educators and artists JDP and Sookie Bardwell, introduce five requirements to create 'a fat medical utopia'. In this first part, they explore what patient centered

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‘Hmmm… first thing, let’s get you on a diet’ – A Comic

As a mid-week treat, Barry Deutsch lightens the mood, and prepares us for the series' closing pieces on "Creating a Big Fat Medical Utopia". The comic illustrates the absurdity of

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Reading Closely: Bodies and Environments

Creating A Big Fat Medical Utopia (Part Two)

Creating a Big Fat Medical Utopia (Part One)

‘Hmmm… first thing, let’s get you on a diet’ – A Comic

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The Madness of Fear: A History of Catatonia
Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry reviewed by Michael Flexer
The Greatest Hits of 2019
Conversations on Care and/in the Community: Part II
Critical Medical Humanities Symposium - Review by Avishek Parui
‘Loud and tender’: exhibition review of John Walter’s Alien Sex Club, (Wellcome Collection, London, until 27th August) by Theo Gordon
We are more than our genes, aren’t we? ‘Global Genetic Fictions’ (Review)
'Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences' reviewed by Dr Svetlana Sholokhova
"Devouring Brains with Neuroscientists": Liat Clark in WiredUK on Guerrilla Science's "Brain Banquet" (London, 13–15 March 2014)
‘Locating Health: Regional Historical Perspectives on Human Care, 1800-1948’: Workshop Review
Four Meditations on Happiness – reviewed by Rob Boddice
‘The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics’ reviewed by Dr Thomas Lawrence Long