If you're in the London region you might be interested in this symposium on medicine and the humanities. Focussing on literature, art and music it features some excellent speakers. In keeping with other RSM events, lively debate is sure to follow. http://www.rsm.ac.uk/academ/hsg106.php
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Atomised. Jim Bond. Animated Sculpture, 2005
Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is a wonderful research and teaching resource. It's also has an exhibition space that's open to the public.
Assembling Bodies: Art, Science & Imagination  aims to challenge pre-conceived ... Read More »

There has been a lot of hype about this film and deservedly so. I was surprised how many issues, raised in the film I could identify with as an inner city GP in London.  The film is set in a secondary school in a multi cultural area in Paris. It was written by a teacher, who plays himself in the film, and the ... Read More »

This article metaphorically depicts a physician caregiver struggling to resolve his dilemma in treating a particularly important patient of gigantic proportions inoculated by a virus. He knows viral clearance is a solution but can’t bring him to even think of it, as he is himself one of the H viruses plaguing his patient. The only other solution is truce between the countless H viruses and the natural immune forces although at the present moment the H viruses have finally gained an upper hand and are unlikely to let go. The whole write up is presented in a power point lecture auto ethnographic format with the physician as a participant observer.

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We live in a society obsessed with the body: the body perfect; the body far from perfect; the body as commodity- modified, objectified, sold on to the highest bidder; the body as art and as the inspiration for art; the body as a source of identity; and the disrupted or diseased body as the object of societal taboo and ... Read More »

 
I've been ill. For two whole days. Horribly, gut wrenchingly, toilet bowl huggingly, head piercingly ill. For two whole days. So now I know what my patient felt like, right? The one who 'gave' this to me a few days ago when I visited her at home. The one who, in her 90th year, whilst clearly overwhelmed by the ... Read More »

Back in September of 2006 I had the pleasure of seeing Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon staged for the first time. Before it moved to the London's West End, and then to New York's Broadway, Frost/Nixon was staged at the Donmar Warehouse, a trendy and fun performance space in London that's best known for staging the unusual and challenging.  ... Read More »

What exactly is an artsy doc? No really, can you tell me because I honestly don't know. Is it someone with artistic talents, whether as a writer, artist, actor or musician? Is it someone who simply enjoys these things and finds them enriching? Or is it someone who may seldom find time for a book or a play but for whom creativity is a intuitive way of approaching life and its challenges? ... Read More »

I'd always hoped that one day I'd finally get to grips with the contents of Gray's Anatomy. Perhaps then I'd be able to write the sort of blog my friend Babette- a sport's physician- would like me to write. To quote Babette, she'd like me to write something "simple, like sports, or the athlete's heart, or sudden cardiac death, something simple." So for you, Babette, here's hoping that a heart stopping picture of Patrick Dempsey and some thoughts on TV's Grey's Anatomy will hit the mark. ... Read More »

When I look at The Maze of Trees I'm touched by the poignancy of the lonely figure searching for a way through the dense and forbidding forest. I'm also moved to smile by the memory of one of the most playful, creative and generous people I have ever known.  ... Read More »