Journal of Medicine and Movies

Neurology: Traumatic Brain Injuries and their Recovery. Regarding Henry (1991)

2024-01-13T10:47:35+01:00

Henry is shot several times in the course of a robbery. One of the bullets injures his brain. After waking from the coma, he suffers retrograde amnesia, aphasia and difficulty walking. He begins a long journey to regain his speech, memory, walking and, above all, his family.

Medical Embryology in the Cinema. The Case of the Hilton Conjoined Twins

2025-05-09T10:04:31+02:00

This paper analyzes the crime noir drama film Chained for Life, loosely based on aspects of the lives of Daisy and Violet Hilton, pygopagus conjoined twin sisters. Played by them, it tells the story of a conjoined twin sister who kills her husband and the trial to which she is subjected. The jury must decide, if she is found guilty of first-degree murder, whether her sister receives the same sentence. In this context, it may become useful for health sciences students for debating its religious, legal, and ethical-moral aspects.

Fragile Representations of Disability

2025-05-09T10:04:28+02:00

Fragile is a film that shows different aspects of imperfect osteogenesis. Some articles have been published that ponder its suitability to be used as didactic material for the understanding of that pathology. Here we analyze what representations of disability are observed in the film to think about whether it contributes to the inclusion of persons with disabilities, or instead, reinforces their exclusion.

Gardens of the Mind. Textual Analysis and Social Symptomatology in Hal Ashby's Being There

2025-05-09T10:04:34+02:00

The study consists of a structuralist film analysis of the work Welcome Mr. Chance (1970) by Hal Ashby, a film adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Jerzy N. Kosinski, which narrates the vicissitudes that sculpt the daily events of a person with intellectual disabilities, and which nevertheless manages to reach the top of the executive and economic powers of the United States. The film criticizes the ranks of contemporary society in a poetic key: against the American dream, on the one hand, and the media, on the other. A whole repertoire of cinematographic objectifications and rhetorical figures subordinated to the magic that the seventh art empowers us with. The visual text that summons us here is the sum of three very different authors: the writer Jerzy N. Kosinski, the filmmaker Hal Ashby and the artist René Magritte. We will delve into the links that tie the idea to the film material to explain what this work says, how it says it and, with this, also explain the (satirical) portrait that is made of a developmental condition that implies limitations in intellectual functioning. and on a person's adaptive abilities.

Saw X, the Gigli Saw, the Tourniquet and the Fastest Amputation Ever Described

2025-05-09T10:04:33+02:00

Saw X is a 2023 American horror film, where a murderer named John Kramer takes revenge on those who deceived him about a treatment for his brain tumor. In this film, Leonardo Gigli and his famous saw are mentioned, which must be used to amputate a leg in order to achieve a macabre challenge. This amputation must be accomplished in just 3 minutes, at the risk of being decapitated with one of those saws. This film serves as a pretext to review the life of Leonardo Gigli, the history of his saw, the possibility of performing an amputation in short time, and the effectiveness of improvised tourniquets in controlling exsanguinating bleeding.

Exploring Death, Grief, and the Right to Die: a Look through Documentary Cinema

2025-05-09T10:04:36+02:00

This article delves into complex and emotive issues related to death, grief, and the right to die, using documentaries as primary sources of study. This review explores a wide variety of perspectives and contexts in order to understand human nature in the face of mortality, as well as coping with death. Film is positioned as a medium of communication that aspires to reflect and consider a vital space that, in turn, is installed in the complex idea of understanding the meaning of life. The methodology used is based on an exhaustive systematic-filmographic review, whose main objective and conclusion is to determine cinematographic categories by comparing qualitative data derived from the reflection on the contents of the films. Documentary film is presented as a sociological and visual tool in order to analyse and understand these complex issues that affect the human psyche itself.

Reviewers of the year 2024

2025-04-07T12:39:49+02:00

Martinus W. Beijerinck (1851-1931)

2025-05-07T15:22:57+02:00

Martinus W. Beijerinck (1851-1931) is considered the father of virology.