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
An Amazing Murmur of the Heart: Feeling the Patient’s Beat – reviewed by Mike White
‘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
‘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,