Thinking critically about the role of complaint in patient care, Jelmer Brüggemann, Lisa Guntram and Ann-Charlotte Nedlund explore the ’difficult patient’ as a medical humanities concept. Possibility comes from intimacy with what has thickened
‘What Patients Teach: The Everyday Ethics of Health Care’ by Larry R. Churchill, Joseph B. Fanning, and David Schenck (Oxford University Press, 2013). These three authors from Vanderbilt University share a long standing engagement with
‘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,
