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February 23, 2007
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Re: The Health Book
When will the book arrive Stateside? I’m in New York City, and I’m itching to snap up a copy.
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Catherine on February 23, 2007 6:52 PM | Permalink
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Re: The Health Book
As far as I’m aware the US rights haven’t been bought up yet. Our agents’ webpage confirms this. If you happen to work for a US publishing house,…
Medicalize Me; Re: The Health Book
I would love to read this book.
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Source: University of Michigan Health System
Medicalize Me: Experts Look At How Our Perceptions Of Illness Are Shaped
Science Daily:
“Medicalize” me: Experts look at how our perceptions of illness are shaped by drug ads, patient empowerment, and more
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Do prescription drug ads make people think they’re sick when they’re not, or create “disease” out of thin air? Does the “empowered patient” movement mean that doctors have lost some of their professional clout when it comes to making diagnoses and prescribing treatment?
These questions and more are the focus of a set of probing essays in a special section of the Feb. 24 issue of the journal The Lancet, all addressing the topic of “medicalization” and what it means in modern society.
The essays, which grew out of an international workshop…
Re: Medicalize Me; Re: The Health Book
Thanks. I’ll take a look at The Lancet and if I have anything sensible to say will post on the other blog. I can’t expect the other guys to allow this health business to pollute the n-categorical drive to quantum gravity.
Re: The Health Book
Ordered the book from Amazon. We operate what may be termed a social-medical practice in Northampton, UK and don’t medicalise every issue. I’m looking for ways to assess what we do but not just through standard medical research approaches. Thinking of setting up a community interest company on which pateints sit as well to run the business.
Re: The Health Book
I very much hope you find something useful in the book. If it turns out to be a helpful resource to foster dialogue concerning health care provision, we will be well satisfied.
Breakfast listening
So there I was, eating my breakfast and minding my own business, radio burbling in the background, when it filters through to my consciousness that the presenter is saying something like “…and psychoanalyst Darian Leader is here to discuss his new book ‘Why Do People Get Ill?’”.
You can hear it too. Leader is last to be interviewed.
(If David won’t blow his own trumpet, I’ll do it for him.)
Re: Breakfast listening
I’m dealing with media attention on this blog.
Now if only I could model the activity of the immune system using directed homotopy.
Actually, if there is a connection between these two areas of research of mine, then it’s narrative, the patient and their narrative, and mathematics as narrative.
Re: Breakfast listening
OK - I did look on your blog, but couldn’t see it mentioned there. Anyway, I thought the patrons of this cafe might like to listen to it too.
I like Start the Week, but Andrew Marr seemed underprepared this time - he kept getting things wrong about people’s books!
Re: Breakfast listening
I haven’t mentioned this programme yet, as I’m hard at work here in Germany. But I will listen this evening.
It turns out that not every book discussed has been read by all participants, authors and presenter. On the other hand, one person, Darian, had read the other books.
Re: The Health Book
I see Pegasus have changed ‘ill’ to ‘sick’ and removed ‘do’ from the title, and fashioned a new cover design for the American edition of our book.
Re: The Health Book
Along with ‘do’, they also removed the question mark, thus changing the entire sense of the title. I guess they figure Americans want answers, not questions!
My condolences.
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Todd Trimble on December 27, 2007 1:09 PM | Permalink
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Re: The Health Book
I guess they figure Americans want answers, not questions!
Good point! I hope we don’t get sued. We often end chapters having raised questions rather than given answers.
And what’s with the US cover image?
It took me a while to grow to enjoy our discordant cover. Perhaps the fact that artist friends were enthusiastic helped. It’s by a Glasgow artist, David Shrigley.
Re: The Health Book
…to a remarkable extent the norms of our secularized culture not only exclude any serious and systematic questoning of oneself and others about the nature of the human good and the order of things, but they also exclude questioning those dominant cultural norms that make it so difficult to pose these philosophical questions outside academic contexts in any serious and systematic way. We have within our social order few, if any, milieus within which reflective and critical enquiry concerning the central issues of human life can be sustained and the education to which we subject our young is not well-designed to develop the habits of thought necessary for such questioning. This tends to be a culture of answers, not of questions, and those answers, whether secular or religious, liberal or conservative, are generally delivered as thought meant to put an end to questioning. (Alsasdair MacIntyre, The Tasks of Philosophy, pp. 181-2)
Re: The Health Book
Amazon claims it is available in the US from tomorrow.
Re: The Health Book
Read the book. A very clear, important and well informed account on how repressed emotional states trigger illness. Water is vital for maintaining good health. It plays a crucial role in various bodily functions and is essential for overall well-being. It aids in regulating body temperature, lubricating joints, transporting nutrients, eliminating waste, and supporting overall bodily functions.
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Alexis Roy on June 1, 2023 3:43 PM | Permalink
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Re: The Health Book
That sales rank is amazing! Congratulations!