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Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
WEBHadley Freeman’s Good Girls is an account of her thirty years of entrapment and escape from this most cruel of psychological illnesses. What the ‘meaning’ of anorexia might be is to the forefront. Freeman describes her ‘fall’ into anorexia just after her fourteenth birthday as ‘instantaneous and vertiginous’. She loses more than a
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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of …
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 students who strongly agreed with the statement ‘Life often feels meaningless’. Multiple studies show that over the past
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 study of twins. Then his attention was drawn to food, particularly the task of unravelling the relationship between genes, nutrients and their interactions in the gut.
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 insurance industry with a vested interest in charging the earth for a single sticking-plaster. When serious illness strikes, the American
Being Mortal: Ageing, Illness, Medicine and What Matters …
WEBAs a surgeon at a leading American hospital and professor of surgery at Harvard, Atul Gawande enjoys a high-status, well-paid and privileged position in society. And yet, for his fourth book, he has chosen one of the lowest-status and most neglected subjects: dying. Thank goodness that he has
Fighting for Life: The Twelve Battles That Made Our NHS, …
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 angles. Isabel Hardman, a sparky journalist and assistant editor of The Spectator, views the NHS through the lens of the political battles that have raged around the institution …
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a …
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, I told the medics gathered round his bed, the surge in allergies over the past fifty years could be due to our obsession with eradicating bacteria.
Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility
WEBThe real ecological disaster is not starvation, but man himself. ‘We are the crisis’, Greer says, pleading for a change in the nature of the debate at the end of her book. The goal of Sex and Destiny is to raise questions about the politics of fertility and to goad the West out of its destructive ethnocentricity.
Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the …
WEBOn the evening of 23 March 2020, the prime minister, Boris Johnson, gave the British people what he described as ‘a very simple instruction’: ‘you must stay at home.’ No legal authority existed for any such instruction. Cover arrived three days later, in the shape of regulations made under
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 there we travel through France, imperial Russia, Messina, Sidon, Bombay and the Raj, Ottoman and British Egypt, Constantinople,
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 much more than this sort of book.It is one of the most accomplished longue durée case studies in the history of capitalism that we have, concerned not just with trade and consumption …
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 won. Today, with the rise of populism, liberals are walking around like clueless tourists, wondering how we ended
Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food …
WEB‘The whole point of this book’, the award-winning epidemiologist Professor Tim Spector informs readers of Spoon-Fed, ‘is not to tell you how or what to eat’ – a refreshing change for those who have to put up with me boring on about the evils of refined sugars and the glories of gut flora, depending on which paperback I’m clutching at that moment.
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 Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry by …
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 farming are roundly dismissed. One exponent of new ways of farming, the rancher and ecologist Allan Savory, who has devised systems that replicate the movement of
Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
WEBFuchsia Dunlop is one of the world’s foremost authorities on Chinese cuisine. She made her name with Sichuan Cookery in 2001, following that book up with a slew of others, all on different aspects of Chinese cuisine, as well as a superb memoir, Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper (2008), which came with recipes. One might expect that recipes would also lie at …
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