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Watch those Latin quotes: "The health of the people …" TLS

WEBI was woken up on Sunday to the news that Boris Johnson had quoted Cicero to reflect on the current crisis. “The health of the people should be the supreme law.” Let’s be clear …

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Morale and mental health TLS

WEBAs a retired psychiatrist I enjoyed Kathleen Taylor’s review of three books about mental ill health (March 1). Her summing up was excellent, but the books reviewed located the …

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I'm Not as Well as I Thought I Was by Ruby Wax Book review

WEBRuby Wax’s comedy career has been eclipsed by her prodigious campaign work for mental health (for which she was awarded an OBE in 2015). I’m Not as Well as …

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Different approaches to the depression edidemic Book review

WEBThe science of why we never feel enough. 304pp. Cornerstone Press. Paperback, £10.99. Thomas Curran. Mental ill health is a curious thing these days. More people are being …

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Embodying the Soul by Meg Leja Book review The TLS

WEB392pp. University of Pennsylvania Press. £81 (US $89.95). Since the Covid-19 pandemic, there might be less inclination to ridicule medieval public health measures such as mask …

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Dear Life: A doctor’s story by Rachel Clarke review

WEBLittle, Brown. £16.99. “We make paradoxical demands on our doctors”, writes Rachel Clarke in Dear Life. “We want them human, empathetic, caring – but only …

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Smell the burn: What is the point of physical exercise

WEBA couple of years ago I gave in to the inevitable and joined a gym. There was nothing particularly appealing about air that smelled of rubber, disinfectant and sweat, or rows of …

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The Doctor Who Wasn't There by Jeremy A. Greene Book review

WEB“Originally titled The Electronic Patient, Jeremy A. Greene’s The Doctor Who Wasn’t There explores the role that electronic media play, for better and for worse, in the past, present …

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The romanticization – and the realities – of mental illness and art

WEBTake a quick glance at the annals of literature and you can find madness in bucketloads: Hemingway undergoing painful electroconvulsive treatment, Robert Lowell’s stint in …

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Friedrich Hayek’s devotion to the free market

WEBBy Linda Yueh. Friedrich Hayek. Footnotes to Plato is a TLS Online series appraising the works and legacies of the great thinkers and philosophers. After the Soviet Union …

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How male doctors have treated women down the generations

WEBQuercus. £16.99. Alyson J. McGregor. In Of Woman Born: Motherhood as experience and institution (1976), the American poet Adrienne Rich wrote, “I have come …

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The Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen Book review The TLS

WEBThe Best Minds by Jonathan Rosen is a memoir of a boyhood friendship, a passionate critique of the failure of American mental health policy and a devastating …

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How disease has shaped global history Book review The TLS

WEBPandemics, vaccines and the health of nations 480pp. Simon and Schuster. £30.

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Apollo's Arrow by Nicholas A. Christakis book review The TLS

WEBNicholas Christakis has given his rapidly written yet magisterial book about the pandemic the title Apollo’s Arrow. The allusion is to the plague the god unleashes …

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Who Cares by Emily Kenway Book review The TLS

WEBWHO CARES. 336pp. Headline. £22. In March my daughter broke her leg in a cycling accident. I had to drop everything I was doing, travel to the other end of the …

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Speaking and Being by Kübra Gümüşay Book review The TLS

WEB240pp. Profile. £14.99. As a regular guest on German talk shows, Kübra Gümüşay often speaks on issues relating to immigration and Islam. In her first book, …

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Ravenous by Henry Dimbleby with Jemima Lewis Book review

WEBA public reason approach. 264pp. Oxford University Press. £47.99 (US $74). Anne Barnhill and Matteo Bonotti. The way we feed ourselves today seems both …

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Shutdown by Adam Tooze Book review The TLS

WEB368pp. Allen Lane. £25. Adam Tooze. Coronavirus Long reads. Shutdown tells the story that we have all just been living through and which is manifestly not over. I …

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Our NHS by Andrew Seaton Book review The TLS

WEBYale University Press. £20 (US $50). Andrew Seaton. T he NHS didn’t celebrate its birthday until it was forty years old. In 1988 trade unions and local …

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