Satire Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/tag/satire/ Sun, 09 Feb 2020 16:22:34 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Laughter is the best medicine https://bshm.org.uk/laughter-is-the-best-medicine/ https://bshm.org.uk/laughter-is-the-best-medicine/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2020 14:17:29 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=8902 Anyone who has read doctor-turned-comedian Adam Kay’s best-selling ‘This Is Going to Hurt’ about his experiences on the obstetrics wards will be aware that medicine provides rich pickings for humour and satire. But Kay is not the first person to draw on medical experiences to amuse his audiences. For as long as modern medicine has […]

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