This section, edited by Henk Maassen, features reviews of current novels, films, music, theater, exhibitions and poetry in which medicine plays a role every two weeks on Saturdays. But, since we are a Dutch website in origin, films will probably be the main topic in the English version of SCOOP. Comments, questions, tips, criticism, and praise can be sent to Henk Maassen: scoop0329@gmail.com
In this episode: how one person’s life can mean death for another (the film Voor de meisjes (For the Girls); a racist who, at the end of her life, has to deal with a black caregiver (the novel…
Four films and a novel this time. A breathtaking film (Heldin) about the workload of a nurse, two films (The Blue Trail and Familiar Touch) about aging, with or without disabilities, and finally a…
This edition features a powerful Georgian film about a gynecologist in trouble and a French classic from the early 1960s about a young woman who wanders through Paris while waiting for the potentially…
This edition features a beautiful collection of stories that gives us a glimpse into how children deal with illness and crises in the family and a—unfortunately—failed film about exploring the…
This edition features one recent novel. A Simple Procedure is about a surgical procedure that can put an end to mental disorders—where have we heard that before? We also focus on a masterful…
In this edition, a beautiful exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam about artists’ views on mental illness and a film about the problems of a deaf boy…
This new episode focuses on unfulfilled childhood wishes and miscarriages (in the film Kind and the novel Hello Baby), the French comedy On Ira, in which a terminally ill old lady wants to end her…
This time two films that are being screened again: the Japanese classic Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa about a terminally ill civil servant, and the rich but compelling Danish medical drama Open Hearts…
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