Cancer’s the sort of thing in respect of which a lot of people are very, very earnest indeed. It’s a pleasure, then, to discover Cancerous Capers, a blog about cancer by someone with cancer, that is light and funny and… well, not earnest: I’m Jamie Ross. I’m twenty, and I was an English student until […]
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Steven Pinker and his Genes
The psychologist gives a brief essay on genetic analysis and the possibility of consumer genomics in the New York Times. He makes a number of interesting points about such analysis, concerning everything from Brussels sprouts to Jewishness to hair. But a couple of the points he makes about health markers are worth noting. First, in […]
Naked Scientists Performing Autopsies!
The headline get your attention? There’s recently been an appeal put out that more people should donate their organs – brains in particular – to science. In a similar sort of vein, it’s apparently National Pathology Week (I’ve booked my autopsy for Thursday morning: it’ll be ACE!), and there’s a series of podcasts to go with it. […]
Hurrah… The Complete JME back archive now available online
The complete JME back archive is now available online. You can now get all the important articles from the first issue in 1975 and onwards, to there is now no excuse for not citing that important articles from 1975 just because it requires a walk to the library! […]
Must read opinion piece on Ouch! (the BBC web-site on disability)
Sir Thomas William Shakespeare, 3rd Baronet of Lakenham a.k.a. Tom Shakespeare the sociologist and disability activist is recounting his experiences of NHS rehabilitation after spinal surgery. This is a must read piece for anyone interested in the irrationality of health care systems and will also be an excellent basis for a discussion with students about […]
Bioethics Briefing Book
The Hastings Center has produced Birth to Death and Bench to Clinic: The Hastings Center Bioethics Briefing Book for Journalists, Policymakers, and Campaigns It contains 36 overviews of issues in bioethics of high public interest, such as abortion, health care reform, human and sports enhancement, organ transplantation, personalized medicine, medical error, and stem cells. The […]