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Philosophy

Brain – December 2010

Metaphysics Resurgent

Medicine

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH – 29 November 2009

Have we discovered it all?

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 09 July 2000

Scientists who should carry a health warning

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 18 October 1992

‘Medicine’ which will kill or cure

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 10 April 1994

The ghosts that haunt amputees

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 19 February 1995

Wash your hands please Doctor

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 12 December 1999

Bad bowels, excess bile and forty years of misery

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 12 September 1999

If magnet therapy cures animals, why not humans?

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 29 August 1999

Maggots might make mincemeat of expensive drugs

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 01 August 1999

Even earwax has its place in the grand order of things

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 28 March 1999

Unfortunately, most illness is down to sheer bad luck

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 14 March 1999

Why our nails are the cutting edge of civilisation

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 07 February 1999

The art of seeing through yellow-tinted spectacles

History of Medicine

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 06 May 2001

Dysentery, Rommel and the making of the Empire

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 29 March 1992

Just how far would you go for science?

THE TIMES – 06 January 1994

The monkey gland secret

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 05 February 1995

Fighting off evil with grass soup

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 19 May 1996

What bugged Florence Nightingale?

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 16 February 1997

Hero who put himself through hell

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 23 May 1999

The unsolved mystery of modern medicine

PROSPECT MAGAZINE – July 1999

The fall of medicine

Science

The Oldie – 2009 - 2011

Profitable Wonders

The Tablet – 05 July 2011

Aping Mankind

PROSPECT MAGAZINE – 21 July 2010

Science's Dead End

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 09 January 2000

Our bodies are the best measuring stick of our world

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 02 August 1992

The physics of winning physiques: Are Olympic athletes born or made?

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 14 January 1996

What a piece of work is the human body

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 09 March 1997

Remembrance of smells past

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 22 November 1998

How the blind really do ‘see’ with their fingers

New Statesman – 03 July 2000

Dish the dirt and keep healthy

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 03 April 1994

Hairy attempt to teach evolution

THE TIMES – 30 March 1995

Mother’s battle of the bulge

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 02 August 1998

Why do women have such large breasts?

Psychology

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 04 November 2001

If you want to live longer, start praying

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 20 December 1992

Is belief a trick of the mind?

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 29 January 1995

Murder most sophisticated

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 22 December 1996

Mother love’s unbreakable cord

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 29 September 1996

False memories and faux realities

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 05 May 1996

Analysis can drive you mad

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 29 November 1998

You are only as old as your inner Tony Blair

Ethics

New Statesman – 12 December 1998

Geneticists are not gods

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 17 September 1995

Behind the hype: monkeys die and the mysteries remain

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 02 March 1997

The outlook for Dolly is far from jolly

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 31 January 1999

Which comes first, the philosophy or the egg?

Social Policy

New Statesman 15 – May 2008

How not to defeat Aids

New Statesman – 22 November 1999

Behind the great plastic duck panic

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 28 March 1993

Back to the eggs and bacon, Mr C

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 26 February 1995

Sick statistics syndrome Is poverty really the cause of ill-health?

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 18 Jul 1999

Sunbathing, ‘skin cancer’ and sore confusion

Politics

New Statesman – 26 February 1999

Was Two-Brains one too many?

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 06 March 1994

The shortest way to ruin a health service

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH – 19 February 1995

Goodbye to Utopia?

Books

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine: Fully Revised and Updated 2nd edition

The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine

Why Us? How Science Rediscovered
the Mystery of Ourselves

Why Us? Why Us?

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