Politics of Care

This 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 were two reasons to translate Shipwreck into Spanish.  One is … [Read more...] about Chronicle of a Tyranny Foretold

The 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 Standardisation of Psychiatric … [Read more...] about The Standardization of Psychiatry

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 June … [Read more...] about Company Woman or Mother?

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 below (without the images) was sent to Eluned Morgan, Minister for Mental Health in … [Read more...] about Morgan vs Morgan: The Future of the NHS?

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 an Arms race and compared Drugs and Guns.  But there are important differences … [Read more...] about Can Politicians Save the World?

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 to draw to politicians' attention for one post. One We need to reign in Technique.  That means voting for … [Read more...] about Can Politicians Save Us?

Care 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 even … [Read more...] about The Deep NeoLiberal State

This 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 the crisis posed by our growing inability to care for others when sick, when treatments go wrong, when they … [Read more...] about Can Doctors Save their Jobs and the World