‘An Amazing Murmur of the Heart: Feeling the Patient’s Beat’ by Cecil Helman (Hammersmith Books, 2014). Mike White writes: Not long before he died in 2009, I was privileged to hear the anthropologist GP Cecil
‘An Amazing Murmur of the Heart: Feeling the Patient’s Beat’ by Cecil Helman (Hammersmith Books, 2014) A murmuration of clinical tales A doctor must be observant to notice their patients’ murmurs. They have to
‘Cecil Helman – A Biography’ by Clive Sinclair Clive Sinclair offers a detailed and personal insight into the life and work of Cecil Helman to accompany clinical and academic reviews of his posthumous book,
‘Four Meditations on Happiness’ by Michael Hampe (Atlantic Books, 2014) What if, at the conclusion of Plato’s Republic, Plato had appended a short essay of explanation? Would it have robbed the dialogue of its allure, or added to
William Viney writes: There’s an old West Country joke of which I’ve grown fond: a Booker Prize winning novelist and a professor of clinical neurophysiology walk into a museum. There, they speak about faces,
