Life Sciences, Medical & Veterinary Sciences
Global- HIV and AIDS: fear, community and hope
This playlist showcases a collection of documentaries and dramas for World AIDS Day and beyond, including The People vs The NHS: Who Gets the Drugs? from 2018. This work poses fundamental questions about access and inequity, which will be of interest to health and social care students, as well as those in fields such as sociology and politics...
Biology in Broadcast Media
Developments in biology and biomedicine are a staple of broadcast media. In this playlist I’ll offer recommendations for a variety of TV and radio programmes that would prove valuable for your teaching and learning in the subject...
Mental health in sport
There is increasing recognition of the potential for negative, as well as positive, impacts of a sporting career on the mental health of participants. This playlist includes television and radio documentaries about the factors that can contribute to loss of mental fitness including personal accounts from sports people who have shared their experiences.
Sport concussion and dementia
In light of growing concerns about the long-term risks of mental disorders and neurodegenerative disease associated with head impact and concussion in sport, this playlist includes television and radio documentaries on the state of evidence and possible approaches to reduce harm to participants.
The Art of Medicine
This playlist showcases examples of where the application of imagination – and sometimes the failure of imagination – has shaped our understandings of medical practice, medical institutions, and concepts of health and healthcare. Examples in the playlist are also of interest for the way medical stories are told...
Here are the available playlists organised by subject area.