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
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…
This edition features reviews of two feature films that both dramatize trauma and trauma processing in an original way: Drowning Dry and Hoard. We also look at the reissue (in Dutch) of Richard…