Tag: United Kingdom
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The benefit of literature to a medical student
Martin ConwillUnited Kingdom In a letter to Benjamin Bailey in 1817, John Keats, who only one year prior was a medical student himself, wrote: “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination – what the imagination sees as beauty must be truth.”1 This proclamation can be…
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Elizabeth Casson
Victoria BatesUnited Kingdom Dr. Elizabeth Casson (1881–1954) is often overlooked in the history of medicine and the medical humanities. Despite being awarded an OBE and being amongst the first female doctors in the UK, scholarship on her work has largely been confined to small pamphlets or local histories. However, such focused biographical approaches overlook the…