Bedside Reading
A medical humanities podcast where we explore themes from fiction, memoir and other non traditional non-textbooks which help to make us better at what we do.
Hosted by Dr Tara George, a GP and medical educator, in each episode a different guest explores a book that has changed their practice. Follow us on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/bedsidereading.bsky.social Facebook or Instagram @bedsidereadingpodcast. If you'd like to recommend a book or to come on the podcast as a guest please email: bedsidereadingpodcast@gmail.com. Episodes hosted by Tara George, edited by Levi Gee
Bedside Reading
Beautiful Lives
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It's a real honour today to welcome Stephen Unwin to Bedside Reading. Stephen is a theatre director by trade. He's also a brilliant writer. We're here today to talk about his phenomenal book, Beautiful Lives, How We Got Learning Disabilities So Wrong, which is an incredibly accessible, brilliant page-turner of a book, which runs through some of the history of how society have seen, judged, and categorised people.
It's about othering. It's about ableism. It's a real call to action for all of us to think about the way that we do things and the way that we see people And the fact that everybody must be human first and not labelled, categorised and pushed into a corner somewhere.
It is an utterly, utterly brilliant book. And I have absolutely loved talking to Stephen about it today.