This episode of the Popperian Podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Seamus O’Mahony. They speak about Seamus’s new book ‘The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A Story of Science, Sex and Psychoanalysis’ concerning the intertwined lives of Sigmund Freud, fellow psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, and the surgeon Wilfred Trotter. Amazon.com: The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A Story of Science, Sex and Psychoanalysis (Audible Audio Edition): Seamus O'Mahony, Seamus O'Mahony, W. F. Howes Ltd: Books
Seamus O’Mahony is a doctor and prize-winning author. He worked for many years in the NHS, returning to his native city of Cork in 2001, where he was a gastroenterologist and clinical professor until February 2020. His first book The Way We Die Now won the British Medical Association’s council chair’s choice award in 2017. His second book Can Medicine be Cured? was published in 2019, and his book The Ministry of Bodies was published by Head of Zeus in March 2021. He is a regular contributor to the Dublin Review of Books and the Medical Independent. He has written also for the Observer, the Irish Times, the Irish Independent and the Saturday Evening Post. He is a member of the Lancet commission on “The Value of Death” and is visiting professor at the Centre for the Humanities and Health at King’s College London.
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