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Dirty work : a novel
\"Nancy Mullion, an obstetrician-gynecologist whose botched surgery has put a patient in a life-threatening coma, must face a medical tribunal to determine if she can continue to practice medicine. Throughout four weeks of intense questioning and accusations, this physician directly confronts for the first time her work as an abortion provider-- how it helps the lives of others but takes a heavy toll on her own.\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Alive : an alternative anatomy
What does it mean to live in a body? For Gabriel Weston, there was always something missing from the anatomy she was taught at medical school. Medicine teaches us how a body functions, but it doesn't help us navigate the reality of living in one. As she became a surgeon, a mother, and ultimately a patient herself, Weston found herself grappling with the gap between scientific knowledge and unfathomable complexity of human experience. In this captivating exploration of the body, Weston dissolves the boundaries that usually divide surgeon and patient, pushing beyond the limit of what science has to tell us about who we are.
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Gabriel Weston: Fresh thinking on bacteria
Maybe it’s this moralistic approach to nature that’s stopped me realising what an amazing organism the recently renamed Clostridioides difficile is. After all, doesn’t it seem prurient to take an interest in this bug, which is the biggest cause of nosocomial diarrhoea worldwide and has been slapped with the most severe warning level by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? It’s surely right that, when I flew to the US with the BBC a few years ago to film the gastroenterologist Colleen Kelly using faecal microbiota transplant to vanquish an intractable case of C difficile in a patient,1 we turned our camera on the cure for this devastating infection rather than revelling in its cause.
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Gabriel Weston: A window on to a hopeful landscape
An article published in Lancet Psychiatry in 2018 estimates that 90% of our incarcerated population have at least one mental or substance use disorder.1 A recent survey from the National Audit Office showed a 73% increase in acts of self harm in prison from 2011 to 2016.2 Medical Justice, a charity that campaigns for detainees’ health rights, says that many of the 30 000 people detained every year in UK immigration removal centres have substantial unmet health needs, as well as often having experienced torture and trauma. Giving prisoners a more homely environment has been shown to improve their prospects of rehabilitation Living with Buildings, a beautifully curated exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, interrogates how our built environment contributes to our physical and mental health across a range of settings.
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