Medical humanities scholarship, and especially that dealing with fiction, is often sceptically received in literature and science communities; it is often regarded as superficial, usually due to a lack of the requisite literary-historical knowledge and skills on the part of the author. Catherine Belling's short article on Ian McEwan's 2005 novel Saturday is a welcome exception, exploring with an appropriate understanding of literary discourses the role that such a novel might play in the reflective education of medical students. Saturday has been widely discussed by literature and science scholars, more often in seminars and conference presentations than in writing (although David Amigoni's contribution to Sharon Ruston's edited collection of essays, Literature and Science, is a fine example of the latter), and it may seem unlikely that there is new territory to be mapped. However, as Belling reveals, to consider how the novel traces different modes of reflection through the character of the neurosurgeon Henry Perowne, is certainly one way to find a fresh perspective
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