In this month’s edition of Le Monde diplomatique I have a piece about US journalist and campaigner Barbara Ehrenreich and her latest book, called Smile or Die in the UK and Brightsided in the US.
I interviewed Barbara on a snowy evening in Bristol last month before she appeared at the Festival of Ideas to explore […]
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Le Monde diplomatique podcast - Barbara Ehrenreich
February 9th, 2010 · No Comments
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31. The Making of Mr Gray’s Anatomy
October 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
“What’s so wonderful about Carter’s illustrations [for Gray’s Anatomy] is that they are not abject people, they are not shown as lumps of meat, they’re not shown as undignified, they’re not shown in pain. In fact, many of the illustrations are quite noble…
“It’s the first real anatomy book for students to be published since the […]
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26. Who owns your body?
July 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
“This is what I think is really surprising to most people: you don’t actually own your body, in the sense that tissue taken from it and used afterwards is yours to use as you see fit.
“The law traditionally took the view that tissue, once it had left the body, was what was called ‘no one’s […]
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25. Menopause and medicine
March 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Louise Foxcroft: Hot Flushes, Cold Science
“There was a physician called John Fothergill in the late eighteenth century who said that it was amazing that women had been taught to dread this natural phenomenon.”
As Louise Foxcroft’s sometimes shocking history of the menopause shows, Fothergill was very much in the minority.
The medical profession in Fothergill’s day was […]
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