Cultural Diversity: Walking the Biomedical Tightrope
Bob Simpson considers the cultural diversity of NHS doctors, offering the image of the doctor as tightrope walker.
‘A Philosopher Goes to the Doctor’: Book Review
Adam Hayden reviews Dien Ho’s A Philosopher Goes to the Doctor: A Critical Look at Philosophical Assumptions in Medicine (Routledge: 2019). Dien Ho is a philosopher who goes to the doctor, in his book with
Learning how to listen
Megan Griffin explores how the listening skills gained as a professional musician have benefited her practice as a medical doctor.
Nostalgia and the NHS
Chelsea Saxby reflects on public feelings about the NHS through TV viewers’ nostalgia for inter-war GPs What might audience responses to a ‘feel good’ Sunday night drama, set in the Scottish Highlands between the
Doctors’ Orders: The Role of the Medic in a Twelfth-Century Saints’ ‘Life’
Barbara Hargreaves reflects on saintly suffering and medical failures in twelfth-century religious works about saints. Mabel of Stotsfield, a nun at the priory at Chicksands in the twelfth century, was, one day, sent on