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Chronicle of a Tyranny ForetoldThis post links intimately with the Dia de los Muertos post on RxISK. El Naufragio de lo Singular was published two weeks ago. Translated by Alex Oncina Canovas and Marc Casañas, who have thought long and hard about related issues, it is likely this is almost its own book rather than just a translation. There […]
The Standardization of PsychiatryThe Back Story Britain’s Royal College of Psychiatrists recently produced a book, Mind State and Society, edited by George Ikkos and Nick Bouras. MSS celebrates 50 years of psychiatry during the period 1960 – 2010. George approached me for a chapter on pharmaceutical industry input to the period. I wrote The Pharmaceutical Industry and the […]
From Virtual Care to Virtual ResearchThis post by Johanna Ryan continues a set of posts looking at the changing world of clinical trials – See Clinical Trial Fraud. These feed straight into and add to the points made in a series of lectures on how trials have developed over the last 3 decades – Clinical Trials Are Not Safe, People […]
Company Woman or Mother?On June 3, 2009, Sean Tracey cross-examined Jane Nieman, who at the time was Director, U.S. Post-Marketing Group, Worldwide Clinical Safety for GlaxoSmithKline in a deposition. Ms. Nieman testified about a spontaneous event report for an aborted male child that was assigned Manufacturer Control Number 2001014040-2109 case number 3667484. This report, received by GSK/SB on […]
They Used to Call It MedicineThis is part 3 of a set of lectures organized by André Marx, a family doctor from Stockholm. Its alternate title is Girl who Eats Salt. This follows Girl with a Clinical Trial Tattoo, and Girl who Tackles Ghosts. A video recording done by Thomas Hultgren of Girl who Eats Salt is Here. Our lady […]
People are the Data in Clinical TrialsThis is the second of a 3 lecture series given to family doctors in Stockholm on September 9 this year. The meeting was organized by André Marx. The alternate title of this talk is Girl who Tackles Ghosts. It follows Girl with a Clinical Trial Tattoo. It will be followed by Girl who Eats Salt. […]
Clinical Trials Are UnsafeThis is the first of 3 linked lectures given to family doctors in Stockholm on September 9 2021. The meeting was organized by André Marx, a family doctor in Stockholm who also runs Sweden’s first and only public health care-funded withdrawal clinic for psychiatric drugs. The alternate title of this talk is Girl with a […]
In a Galaxy too close to Home for ComfortLong ago, in friendlier times, this blog ran a series of Modern Myths featuring Crusoe. The plan was for a lot more but life got serious. Rummaging through files I came across some drafts. This one was dated 2010 but the original might have been written a year or more before. It was clearly the […]
Announcing a BirthSamizdat is proud to announce the imminent birth of El Naufragio de lo Singular – a transformation into Spanish of Shipwreck of the Singular. The birth is expected before the end of September. The expectant parents welcome you to this post – the equivalent of a baby shower party. Baby showers may be primarily or […]
Escape from a Prescription Drug MazeThis post copies a letter sent to Michelle O’Neill and Jeffrey Donaldson, the leaders of the two largest parties in Northern Ireland. It was sent with the letters to Eluned Morgan in Wales and Johnny Mercer in England featured here and on RxISK last week. The image is of Newgrange on the shortest day of […]
Morgan vs Morgan: The Future of the NHS?This post features in a series of posts on the Politics of Care Forum. It sits alongside Can Politicians Save Us, Can Politicians Save the World as well as What’s a Life Worth, Once We Were Warriors and Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Doctor. There will be a follow-up post next week. The letter […]
Revolution from Below: politics of careThere is an important post on RxISK – What’s a Life Worth? Its author, Tracey G, like Violetta in La Traviata would not describe herself as having led a perfect life. La Traviata is one of the all-time great operas and in Zeffirelli’s movie, with Teresa Statas, is beyond compelling – especially when Alfredo’s […]
Can Politicians Save the World?This is part two of Can Politicians Save US. Both are part of the Politics of Care forum. It would be great if you could print off these two posts and send to your local politician, asking what they figure on doing about some of these points. Nine Point Six in Can Politicians Save Us, mentions […]
Can Politicians Save Us?This is a post in the Politics of Care Forum. It lies in the sequence of posts about What You Can Do to Save the World, and What Doctors can Do to Save the World. It will be followed by Can Politicians Save the World – it turned out there were just too many things […]
The Deep NeoLiberal StateCare Homes placed a spotlight on private enterprise, greed, and short-termism in ‘Care’ Homes. The data cited on deaths in Canadian Long-Term Care (LTC) facilities look better for public or voluntary provision than for private provision. The apparent differences between the figures, however, might really mean that public and voluntary are grim with private provision […]
Can Doctors Save their Jobs and the WorldThis post ideally should be titled – Savoury or Saviour? – as will become clear. Its part of the Politics of Care forum. It follows What You Can do to Save the World in a sequence of posts about what a range of people from us to Politicians and Us can do to turn around […]
‘Care’ Homes: What is Care?This is the first of about 6 posts on Social Care that are part of the Politics of Care forum. For more on Teresa Pocock who plays a central role in the efforts of a few of us to define what care is about – see Teresa Pocock. The Technological Revolution The technological revolution that […]
How You Can Save HealthCare and the Global Climatef This is the first of a series of posts on the Politics of Care forum that will outline what you, what your doctor, what your politician, what the media can do to make a difference to the ongoing destruction of the climate of health and the wider global climate. The to-dos below are to-do. […]
The MedicoChemical and PetroChemical TwinsThis Medico-Chemical or Petrochemical post is one in a sequence of Politics of Care posts that explores the interface between our ability or inability to Care for our environment and ability or inability to Care for our health and the health of the most vulnerable amongst us. One of the problems getting in the way […]
From Gaia Hypothesis to PandoraPandora’s Eyes, ©2021 Billiam James From Gaia to Pandora is an instalment in the Politics of Care, which is now the main focus of this site. Pandora: Dos Centavos is a sister piece previously called the Pandora hypothesis. After writing this, I mentioned to my agent that a Pandora Hypothesis would be a closing point […]
The Controlled Healthcare OppositionAn instalment in the Politics of Care In the Beginning For nearly 200 years, concerns about individual and public Health have been a badge for progressive politics. The revolutionaries in Paris in 1790 saw healthcare as close to the most important element of the ancien regime that needed dismantling and replacing with something that would […]
From Stephen O’Neill to the Crack of DoomThis is the first link to the Politics of Care forum. Comments on this post ideally need to centre on reports of actions – outlines of actions that will make a difference or details of what has resulted from efforts to follow up on the leads here. We need to keep track of what has […]
Venus Rising: Women and AntidepressantsSerotonin may be our most primitive neurotransmitter and so on theoretical grounds alone there was reason to think that the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibiting drugs (SSRIs) – sold as absolutely and completely safe, the only danger lying in not having them when you needed them – might have significant effects, not all of which would […]
The Transit of Venus: Autonomy or Nurture?Venus is the black dot in the upper right quadrant of the sun. The plan was to finish the I Can’t Breathe series with Magic is from Venus but then the word Nurture popped onto my radar. There is a Venus Rising to come. The word autonomy starts appearing in medicine and in bioethics sometime […]
Magic is from VenusThis the final instalment of a series that began with Being Black, and went through I Can’t Breathe, I Can’t Breathe II, I Can’t Breathe III, To the Last Breath, and Algorithms are from Mars. There was a delay as the series has spun off a lot of other ideas that will hopefully bear fruit […]
Algorithms are from MarsWhen God was in Heaven, our images of the Divine split between Justice and Mercy – the Shock and Awe figure of the Last Judgement or someone more like Portia letting us know the quality of mercy is not strained, that it droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven upon the place beneath. A person […]
To The Last BreathThis photo is of Terence MacSwiney, in 1920 Lord Mayor of Cork in Ireland. The featured photograph on the blog front page is also of MacSwiney in October 1920. The plan was to end this series of posts starting with Being Black and Janet’s email to me I can’t Breathe with a final post Drawing […]
I can’t breathe IIIThis post follows on Being Black, I can’t breathe and I can’t breathe II and will be followed by Drawing Breath (I and maybe II). Patsy Stephenson has managed to wriggle her way in again, see comments on I can’t breathe II. Whether she managed to stage this photo or not, as a red-head Patsy […]
I can’t breathe IIThis post continues a sequence that began with Being Black and I can’t breathe. and will be continued with I can’t breathe III and Drawing Breath. The picture features Patsy Stephenson, one of a well-heeled group of women, including Kate Middleton – likely there for the photo-op – protesting the death of Sarah Everard in […]
I can’t breatheOn Wednesday February 10, I gave a lecture at the Therapeutics Initiative (the T.I.) in Vancouver about the Permanent Sexual Dysfunctions SSRIs and other drugs can cause. See Sex and Evidence Based Medicine. The damage done by these drugs often extends beyond a total and complete inability to feel sexual desire and pleasure to a […]
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