Comic books and psychiatry
I wrote this for the student BMJ (Sorry about the dreadful photo above) Identifying mental illness in historical figures is a favourite hobby of psychiatric sleuths. Particular scrutiny has been paid...
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Environmental impact of journal distribution is complex
Letter by me in the BMJ this week: Inglis contends that the BMJ’s print run and thus carbon footprint can be reduced by a combination of increased reader sharing of print issues and greater...
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Occupy LSX report
This was originally published on BMJ Blogs Established on 15 October outside St Paul’s and watched over by a statue of Queen Victoria, the Occupy London Stock Exchange (LSX) camp continues its...
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Disability and the Military
Image credit War may not be good for much, but it has proved to be an effective incubator for innovation. I’m not just talking about the Slinky: the development of nylon, polythene, and aerosol sprays...
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Also published on BMJ blogs I learnt some interesting facts about mobile phones the other day. For instance, there are 59 countries where mobile phones outnumber people. This refers to mobile phones...
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A surgeon for life: Pioneer in robotic enhanced and minimal access surgery
An interview I did for Student BMJ Biography Roberto Casula studied at Padua medical school in Italy, graduating in 1989. He came to the UK in 1993 and has worked in Glasgow, Cambridge, and London. He...
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“One in four”: the anatomy of a statistic
(From a bus stop Archway – if you look carefully you can see the reflection of me and my bike) This written by me and Jamie Horder published this week in the BMJ Despite a lack of supporting evidence,...
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Can incarceration be thought of as disease?
This review by me in the BMJ It’s fashionable to treat social problems as if they were diseases. Stephen Ginn reflects on a book that considers an epidemiological solution to the huge and rapidly...
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Life extension: “Moral obligation” or “a disaster for humanity and the planet?”
Is medical control of human aging a worthy goal? Despite the moisturisers you can buy it is impossible to reverse the damage of aging and very few of us will live to anywhere near the theoretical...
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Interview: substance misuse and addiction psychiatrist Henrietta Bowden-Jones
This was first published in the Student BMJ Biography A consultant psychiatrist working in the field of substance misuse and addiction, Dr Bowden-Jones was born and grew up in Italy where she studied...
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