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Scottish Humanities symposium Wed June 14 2023
Welcome back to in-person meetings! Though the meeting will be hybrid, if you can't come ...

Re-remembering first times
More notes after the operation on my right eye (26 March 2010), whose cataract was ...

Heart attack (with birds)
So beautiful ... Oh! The lovebirds are eating ... But a heart attack is gruesome, ...

Medication as a protective shield
I began collecting the used packets on the second anniversary of my transplant, as a ...

Words as a surgeon’s tool
When a patient comes in with a fatal head bleed, that first conversation with a ...

Nise: The Heart of Madness
Nise: The Heart of Madness (Portuguese- Nise: O Coração da Loucura) Commentary Nise da Silveira was ...

Cardiomegaly
You have a big heart, said Dr Broadbent, turning a compliment into a fatal condition ...

On (partial) blindness
When I consider how to represent my sixth of working light, my words collide with ...

Seeing in a different light
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent When I consider how my light is ...

A change of heart
A doctor's visit, Anton Chekhov (1898) ‘I have palpitations of the heart’ she said, ‘It ...