Author: Séamus Sweeney
More thoughts on forest bathing
I have posted before on “forest bathing”; the first post being perhaps a little over-critical of the potential for over-therapeutising what is essentially an attentive walk in the woods, the the second more…
Where are the magpies? October edition
At the end of March, I wondered, where are the magpies? In July, I noted that there were indeed magpies and helpfully I reblogged James Common’s excellent post on whether magpies do indeed “kill all…
Review of “Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates” by David Wootton, Social Affairs Unit Blog, August 31st 2006
Originally posted on A Medical Education:
My penultimate piece (so far) for the SAU Blog. This book greatly impressed me at the time, which is surely clear. Since I have learnt…
“streets ahead etc.” – Flashman on the March, 2005, SAU blog
I have just begun reading George Macdonald Fraser’s “Quartered Safe Out Here” – an author I have not read in some time but enjoyed greatly a decade ago and am…
Grumpy thoughts on Book Clubs from 2006 in the SAU Blog
Well, perhaps not that grumpy. The link to the “long list” of One Book books is now broken, I’m afraid. I think I am more benign about this idea now – after…
The Bacchae of Baghdad at The Abbey Theatre, April 2006 – piece from SAU Blog.
Original here. A decade ago, “updating” Greek tragedy was going through of its periodic spells of fashionability. The bogeyman that was George W Bush was not infrequently the target of…
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