The Human Mind

doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7421.995

BMJ 2003;327:995 (25 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7421.995

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The Human Mind

BBC 1, 1 to 15 October at 9 pm

Rating: $*$ $*$ $*$

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Robert Winston has developed his television career beyond thewildest dreams of previous media doctors. First appearing inpowerful human interest documentaries, rooted in his specialtyof obstetrics, he has now transmuted into a TV icon. Introducingthis, his latest three part series, Winston said he was goingto take us to where no TV doc had been before, to "the finalfrontier" of medical science, "the human mind." But hold ona minute, what's an obstetrician doing talking about the brain?Has Winston strayed too far from his home turf? Would this seriesbe his final frontier?

Has Lord Winston strayed too far fromhis home turf?

Until recently, television tackled medical science in a prettyformal way. In the 1970s, in The Body in Question, JonathanMiller worthily analysed the history of medicine with a renaissanceintensity. Since then, we have had numerous episodic medicaldocumentaries of . . . [Full text of this article]

Iain McClure, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist

Vale of Leven Hospital, Alexandria imcclure@vol.scot.nhs.uk