Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Stories of Unsettled Minds — Review(New York: Vintage, 2022)Dec 21, 2022Dec 21, 2022
Metaphor’s of Maternity in Olivia Gordon’s The First Breath: A Memoir of Motherhood and Medicine…Like the ‘chimeras’ of the genetic technology she describes, Olivia Gordon’s The First Breath skilfully integrates multiple genres to…Feb 2, 2021Feb 2, 2021
If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha: A Multifaceted View of Aesthetic Medicine‘I would live your life so much better than you if I had your face’ remarks Sujin, one of the characters in Frances Cha’s eponymously…Nov 26, 2020Nov 26, 2020
Weather by Jenny Offill: An exploration of ‘eco-anxiety’ and the challenges it poses to medical…‘Suppose you go with some friends to the park to have a picnic. This act is, of course, morally neutral, but if you witness a group of…Aug 2, 2020Aug 2, 2020
‘Girl, Woman, Other’ by Bernadine Evaristo: how reviewing Evaristo’s novel should prompt a…‘White people are only required to represent themselves, not an entire race’ remarks one of the characters in Bernadine Evaristo’s Booker…Jun 20, 2020Jun 20, 2020
Experts, politicians, and Covid-19[The author, Seamus O’Mahony, is a recently retired hospital consultant (gastroenterology) of 35 years’s experience, who worked both in…Jun 11, 2020Jun 11, 2020
