Helen Jaques

The BMJ has just published an interesting feature about comics in medicine – the history, the approaches, and their use in medical and patient education. The authors Michael J Green and Kimberly R Myers call such comics “graphic pathographies”: illness narratives in graphic form. “These graphic pathographies can be helpful to patients wanting to learn [...]

Hot on the heels of Valentine’s day, the British Heart Foundation has announced the winners of their images competition “Reflections of Research,” in which UK scientists funded by the foundation were asked to submit the most striking still and video images of their research. Winners of the video category are Dr Michael Markl of University [...]

This week medical charity the Wellcome Trust presented their annual image awards, which highlight the best new pictures acquired in the past 18 months by their free picture library. The prizes are awarded to “the creators of the most informative, striking and technically excellent images” on the basis of “the ability of the picture to communicate the wonder and [...]

Not my words, but those of the choreographer for Britain’s Got Talent winners Diversity. If you’ve been in the UK at all in the past month you can’t help but have read about the Britain’s Got Talent TV show.  In this nationwide talent contest, people from all walks of life with talents ranging from the [...]

I thought it was finally about time I wrote a post about the fantastic Street Anatomy blog.  Billing itself as ‘obsessively covering the use of human anatomy in medicine, art and design’, the site highlights tons of interesting uses of human anatomy in everything from fashion to advertising. Although a lot of the art the [...]

Yesterday I went down (no, make that up – up a very steep hill, on my bike) to Jackson’s Lane in Highgate for some neurology theatre – not of the surgical kind but a performance of the play Reminiscence. Inspired by a case study published by the neurologist Oliver Sacks, the play tells the story [...]