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Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well

WebBy Tim Spector. Jonathan Cape 528pp £20. This is the third book on food matters by Tim Spector. A medic turned professor of epidemiology, he produced a celebrated long-term …

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The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of …

WebThere is something magnificent about the ambition of Iain McGilchrist’s book. It offers nothing less than an account of human nature and Western civilisation as outcomes of …

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Mental health & 21st Century Literary Review

WebBook Reviews by subject: Mental health & 21st Century. September 2018 Issue Sarah Ditum The Year of Living Mindfully Help Me! One Woman’s Quest to Find Out If Self-help …

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Fighting for Life: The Twelve Battles That Made Our NHS, and the

WebT hese three books, all published to coincide with the seventy-fifth birthday of the National Health Service, come at Britain’s best-loved and most expensive institution from different …

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Too Many Pills: How Too Much Medicine is Endangering Our …

WebJ ames Le Fanu is our most incisive medical journalist, and in his excellent new book he turns his attention to the dangerous and expensive phenomenon of overprescribing. We …

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The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body's Natural Defences

WebAnthony Daniels: For Good or Ill - The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body's Natural Defences by Daniel M Davis; The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson's Cancer …

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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is …

WebIn the early 2010s, the Monitoring the Future Project at the University of Michigan Survey Research Center identified a significant increase in the number of US high-school …

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I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View …

WebH alfway through reading Ed Yong’s first book, I found myself in A&E with a son in anaphylactic shock after he unwittingly ate some nuts. According to the book I’m reading, …

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Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations

WebForeign Bodies is an epic history of inoculation and vaccines, one that begins at the end, in 2020–21, when nature seemed to erupt as human activity came to a near-halt. From …

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The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics

WebT here was a time when commodity histories were everywhere. They tended to focus on consumption and trade over very long distances. Ulbe Bosma’s The World of Sugar is …

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Clean Bill of Health

WebBefore he turned his hand to writing operas, the French composer Hector Berlioz had intended to pursue a career in medicine. He changed his mind the first time he entered a …

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So Much for That by Lionel Shriver

WebAmerica is the only leading industrial nation that does not offer universal health care to all its citizens. It is slowly being strangled by a monstrous health …

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A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism

WebIt took liberals just two decades to turn from hubris to hand-wringing. When the Berlin Wall fell, their confidence was unbounded. The ‘End of History’ was declared. Liberalism had …

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eden by Jim Crace

WebThere’s always an elbow nudge towards the present day in even the most historically distant or fantastical Jim Crace novel. His themes are perennial: the haves and the have-nots, …

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Medicine & Disease Literary Review

WebBook Reviews by subject: Medicine & Disease. May 2024 Issue James Le Fanu Diet Another Day Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New …

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Merpeople: A Human History by Vaughn Scribner

WebBy Vaughn Scribner. Reaktion 320pp £20. You probably believe that merpeople – sirens, tritons – are imaginary creatures, but how can you be absolutely sure? Benjamin Franklin …

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Shattered Nation: Inequality and the Geography of a Failing State

WebD anny Dorling begins his wide-ranging, entertaining, excoriating and slightly messy account of the fractures in British social and economic life with a claim many will find surprising: …

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Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet

WebRegenesis is a book mostly populated by heroes and villains. Many of the ideas that are inspiring a new generation of farmers to look for more ‘regenerative’ ways of livestock …

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