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Questioning the habitual and taken-for-granted 13 May 2013 | 11:23 am
In the fifth of a series of papers, Alan Bleakley and Rob Marshall 1 "use thinking with Homer as a medium and metaphor for questioning the habitual and the taken-for-granted in contemporary [medical] ...
My mother's legs 13 May 2013 | 11:23 am
Inconclusive diagnosis Stole conclusive identity The experts only know what they see Not what it means Mass pressing on spinal cord I give her the only thing I can Knowledge See that? It's your...
Portraits, patients and practitioners 13 May 2013 | 11:23 am
Medicine and portraiture are entwined in intimate and distinctive ways. Thus portraits connected with health and medicine provide promising material for the medical humanities. In order for them to fu...
Dear intensive care provider 13 May 2013 | 11:23 am
Please don't ask me to leave; Don't make me wait outside while you do All the things that you're trained to do That will bring her back from the brink of death. Let me hold her hand a little longe...
A day in the life of the guy in bed 2 13 May 2013 | 11:23 am
Phlebotomy: 4:00 Check the ID band, confirm the name. No I didn't take someone else's ID band, it's me. Left antecubital fossa. Just a pinch. Wiggle the needle, wiggle. No flash. Right arm. Exsanguina...
The 'scientific artworks' of Doctor Paul Richer 13 May 2013 | 11:23 am
This article examines the little-known sculptures of pathology created by Doctor Paul Richer (1849–1933) in the 1890s for the so-called Musée Charcot at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in Paris. Under t...
For flowers are no longer allowed 13 May 2013 | 11:23 am
Nothing was ever good enough, the patients kept dying, though the drugs were getting better all the time, and more expensive. We blamed ourselves while exotic named potions dripped through hopeful...
Portraits of John Hunter's patients 13 May 2013 | 11:23 am
Portraits of patients served many clinical functions in eighteenth-century medic John Hunter's medical practice. As incarnations of medical skills and medical knowledge, they helped Hunter understand ...
Identifying the patient in George W Lambert's Chesham Street 13 May 2013 | 11:23 am
This paper takes as its focus one of the Edwardian period's most dramatic and little-understood paintings of a medical examination: George Washington Lambert's Chesham Street (1910). The painting show...
Inventing the medical portrait: photography at the 'Benevolent Asylum' of Holloway, c. 1885-1889 13 May 2013 | 11:23 am
In 1885, Holloway Sanatorium, an asylum for the ‘mentally afflicted of the middle classes’ opened in Egham, Surrey, 20 miles outside London. Until 1910, photographs of about a third of the patients—bo...
