By guest contributors Hilary Standing and Sally Theobald Depth and detail – meeting the women whose lives you get to know intimately…
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Book Review A book review of Sabina Rashid’s “Poverty, gender and health in the slums of Bangladesh: Children of Crows”Read more
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Book Review Book Review: What Cancer Teaches Us About OurselvesRead more
Seth M. Holmes from University of California Berkeley and Molly Hales from University of California San Francisco and Berkeley review Malignant: How…
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Book Review Book Review: The Adventure of the Cure That Wasn’tRead more
Marzieh Ghiasi and Madhukar Pai from McGill University & McGill International TB Centre, Montreal, review “The Remedy” by Thomas Goetz No image…
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Book Review Book Review: ‘Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare’ by Peter GøtzscheRead more
Tom Yates from University College London reviews Peter Gøtzsche’s recent book about the pharmaceutical industry. I have long been concerned about the conduct…
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Book Review Book Review: The Drugs Don’t Work? Antipsychotics, Big Pharma, and PsychiatryRead more
Seena Fazel from the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK reviews The Bitterest Pills: The Troubling Story of Antipsychotic Drugs by…
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Book Review Book Review: When People Come First is a Reality Check for Global HealthRead more
Jocalyn Clark reviews a new anthology of case studies in global health by leading scholars in anthropology, history, and human rights that…
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Book Review Book Review: Polio – Paralysed by Politics?Read more
Ayesha Khan from the Collective for Social Science Research, Pakistan, reviews Paralysed with Fear: The Story of Polio by Gareth Williams The…
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Book Review Book Review: Fat Chance or Fat Choice?Read more
Claire Meek from the University of Cambridge, UK, reviews “Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth about Sugar” by Robert Lustig. As an obesity…
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Book Review Book Review: The Recession Hurt Many People, Now Austerity is Hurting MoreRead more
Jean Adams from Newcastle University, UK reviews “The Body Economic: why austerity kills” by David Stuckler & Sanjay Basu In early 2009…
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Book Review Book Review: The Plague That Refuses to Go AwayRead more
Jasmine Grenier and Madhukar Pai from McGill University review “Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis” by Helen Bynum Tuberculosis is one of…
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Book Review Book Review: Designed to Allure, Engineered for Harm: The Creation and Marketing of Processed FoodRead more
Bill Wiist from Northern Arizona University reviews “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us” by Michael Moss In “Salt Sugar…
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Book Review Book Review: What Can We Do About ‘Bad Pharma’?Read more
The National Committee of PharmAware, a UK-based student organisation, review ‘Bad Pharma’ by Ben Goldacre. Medical students are taught to make decisions…