Anaesthetics and the Nature of Human Consciousness
An overview of our limited understanding on how anaesthetics actually work and their impact on the study of human consciousness
Cautionary Tales from the International Takotsubo’s Registry: How to Avoid a Broken Heart
Taking a deep dive (with the assistance of cartoons) into the emotional triggers behind a distinctive cardiology condtion.
Flawed Hospital Design: Soundscapes
Sounds in hospital negatively affect healthcare staff and put patients at risk – so what can we do about it?
Vital Electricity and the ‘Electric Pioneers’: Science that inspired Shelley’s Frankenstein.
How the interpretations of anatomists and medical innovators of electricity as a vital force for life inspired one of the greatest pieces of literature ever written
What Can We Learn From the Mediterranean Diet?
Rethinking UK food culture and effective health policy interventions to tackle the obesity crisis using lessons from the Mediterranean and elsewhere
Culture-Bound Syndromes: the Eclectic Disorders Undermining Modern Psychiatry
A tour through a collection of the weird and wonderful conditions found at in the footnotes of the DSM, revealing a fundamental blind spot to modern psychiatric approaches