PODULARITY

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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 Richardson: The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy [17:59m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“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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 Donna Dickenson: Body Shopping: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

“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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 Louise Foxcroft: Hot Flushes, Cold Science: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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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