Teaching Psychiatrists Humanity

Humanity 2009

Chris Baldwin, a devised theatre practitioner and co-editor of a practical guide to devising theatre, lists the devising director’s responsibilities as building a production and performance team, timetabling, compiling documentation of the rehearsal process and, crucially, fulfilling the role of spectator as the devised show is developed and rehearsed. Described by Baldwin as ‘at the centre of ...

Humanity 2.0?

Humanity is constantly reinventing itself. From the earliest days of our species, when one of our ancestors picked up a burning stick and kindled it into a fire, to the present day, when we search for the ‘god particle’ and clone sheep, cats, dogs and more, humans have been altering their environment and shaping the world around them. the history of our species is a stream of discoveries— major...

Humanity 2009

Stemming from the long tradition of biographical writing, cinema has communicated history by means of re-enactments of the lives of significant public figures through time (Landy 1996). It can be argued that film biographies or ‘biopics’ possess a more personal, graphic and emotional vividness as opposed to professional historians chronicling the subject’s life work (Tibbetts 2005). The musical...

Securing Humanity – Situating

Humbug, health and humanity: a patient's tale of care in a public teaching hospital.

The author of this article claims it is a fair description of her recent experience as an inpatient in an unidentified major public teaching hospital. The name of the hospital has been withheld at our request. The Australian Health Review has no reason to believe her account is inaccurate but readers will draw their own conclusions. The comments of the Chief Executive of a similar hospital are ...