Cultural Diversity: Walking the Biomedical Tightrope
Bob Simpson considers the cultural diversity of NHS doctors, offering the image of the doctor as tightrope walker.
Bob Simpson considers the cultural diversity of NHS doctors, offering the image of the doctor as tightrope walker.
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
Megan Griffin explores how the listening skills gained as a professional musician have benefited her practice as a medical doctor.
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
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
‘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
‘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,