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6
Mar
2023

Fads and Fallacies in Psychiatry

This is a new edition of a book originally published 10 years ago. This is a major revision that updates data supporting the view that psychiatry has been susceptible to fads and fallacies, and that in...
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27
Jan
2023

More Than A Narrative Of Science And Medicine

In 1959, CP Snow could claim that the average intellectual knew about as much about science as his neolithic ancestors. Overstated perhaps, but he had a good point. Science, through its technologies,...
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27
Jan
2023

What Does Epilepsy Mean, Does It Really Exist ?

In relating the story of epilepsy in its modern era. I have used the analogy of the boat journeying through rough seas, buffeted by diverse and independent currents, some medical some scientific, some...
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11
Jan
2023

Who Am I And Why This Book

I am a British neurologist who has practiced in London for over 45 years and specialising in epilepsy (at the ‘National Hospital, Queen Square’, originally called at the National Hospital for the...
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13
Dec
2022

Spirituality and Psychiatry

What is spirituality, and what does it have to do with psychiatry? These are good questions but not easily answered; they evoke a lot of debate. Some people think that spirituality is indefinable. Some...
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12
Dec
2022

Why a Textbook on Health Systems?

The importance of health systems has been reinforced by the commitment from Low- and Middle-Income Countries (L&MICs) to pursue the target of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), health security, and...
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12
Dec
2022

Long COVID as a Case Study for Race/Disability...

Chimére Smith is one of tens of millions of Americans with symptoms of long COVID. According to an August 2022 NBC News story, the 40-year-old Black woman from Baltimore was experiencing extreme fatigue,...
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9
Dec
2022

The new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is...

The media have been busy in discussion with the results of a large clinical trial that is a new monoclonal antibody therapy, designed to treat patients with the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease....
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