(How) Should We Tell Implicit Bias Stories?

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

THINK BACK TO that tragic scene near the end of James Cameron’s Titanic when, after the ship has sunk, Rose clings to some fl otsam. Her lover, Jack, tries to hang on, only to slip away as hypothermia overcomes him. From a cinematic perspective, Cameron’s storytelling skills were particularly powerful: you could almost feel the frigid water enfold you, and you could easily project yourself into...

We are the stories we tell.

Narrative based medicine: stories we hear and stories we tell: analysing talk in clinical practice.

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How do we tell time?

Animals time events on scales that range more than 10 orders of magnitude-from microseconds to days. This review focuses on timing that occurs in the range of tens to hundreds of milliseconds. It is within this range that virtually all the temporal cues for speech discrimination, and haptic and visual processing, occur. Additionally, on the motor side, it is on this scale that timing of fine mo...

What should we tell people about dementia ?

Over the past decade, advances in the accuracy of the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, as well as progress in the genetics, aetiology, pathology and therapeutics of the condition, have stimulated a debate on whether patients should be informed of their diagnosis. Prior to this, it was the culture within medicine for practitioners to withhold information from patients. This attitude was based o...