Khalid Ali: Film Review: Asmaa: Directed by Amr Salama: Star rating ****
With annual World AIDS Day taking place 1 December, this new Egyptian film, which was shown at the recent London Film Festival, is very topical. The subject of HIV in European and American cinema has...
View ArticleAyesha Ahmad: Review of ‘Doing Clinical Ethics’ by Dr Daniel Sokol
Since Hippocrates in early 5 B.C., Medicine has carried an ‘angel on its shoulder’; a reflexive gaze on the skill, and phenomenologies of healing between the doctor and his patient. Ethics is a code, a...
View ArticleAyesha Ahmad: Review of ‘Able-Bodied – Scenes from a curious life’ by...
Having had the privilege to meet with Professor Swartz, I read his most recent book publication, ‘Able-Bodied – Scenes from a curious life’ with the jovial sounds of his uncanny ability to reflect on...
View ArticleReview: “Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and Hospitals.”
We have another great review today, of Lori A Brown’s book “Contested Spaces: Abortion Clinics, Women’s Shelters and Hospitals.” It’s by Sophie Jones of Birkbeck College, University of London, and...
View ArticleWho are we as Doctors? Why an exploration of our significance can lead to...
Recently I lost a patient. A lady in her 60’s whose hand I held for months and who’s passing will stand as a turning point in my career. Having spent several months working in oncology my view of the...
View ArticleCall for Papers – special issue of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
The editors of a forthcoming (2017) special issue of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry on “Investigating public trust in expert knowledge: ethics, narrative and engagement” are currently inviting...
View ArticleThe Reading Room: Erik Parens’‘Shaping Our Selves…’ reviewed
Shaping Our Selves: On Technology, Flourishing and a Habit of Thinking by Erik Parens. Oxford University Press. 2014. xi+200 pages. Hbk. ISBN: 9780190211745. Reviewed by Nathan Emmerich, Visiting...
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Ayesha Ahmad: Introduction to Global Humanities—Through Creation, Violence...
Against the backdrop of violence, I have been examining through my research the qualities of our human condition that perpetuate both our survival and our spirit. As an introduction to an ongoing...
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Book review: The Heart
Maylis de Kerangal, The Heart. Translated by Sam Taylor. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, US. In the UK it is titled Mend the Living, translated by Jessica French, and published by MacLehose Press....
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Poetry Book Review: The Wound Dresser
Two poetry book reviews will be featured this week. The second review will appear on Friday. Jack Coulehan, The Wound Dresser (Albuquerque: JB Stillwater, 2016) Finalist for the 2016 Dorset Poetry...
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