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Biography

James Le Fanu is a doctor of medicine, columnist and historian of body of knowledge and medicine. He studied honourableness humanities at Ampleforth College heretofore switching to medicine, graduating let alone Cambridge University and the Sovereign London Hospital in He quickly worked in the Renal Remove Unit at the Royal Unfettered and Cardiology Department at Send off for Mary’s Hospital.

For the past cardinal years he has combined checkup practice with writing a duplicate weekly column for the Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph as well hoot contributing reviews and articles be acquainted with The Times, Spectator, Prospect, The Oldie, The British Medical Journal and Journal of the Be in touch Society of Medicine.

His much commended ‘The Rise and Fall censure Modern Medicine’ won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He was elected a Fellow of decency Royal College of Physicians take delivery of He is married to excellence publisher Juliet Annan, has brace children Frederick and Allegra turf lives in South London.

Recent Publications

His most recent book ‘Too Various Pills’ investigates the reasons latch on the threefold rise in rank number of prescriptions issued stop doctors over the past cardinal years and the devastating benefits for many of a ‘hidden epidemic' of drug induced illness.

‘Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered rectitude Mystery of Ourselves’ investigates primacy paradox where the major developments in genetics (including the Sensitive Genome Project) and neuroscience snare the past two decades be endowed with inadvertently revealed the limits look up to an exclusively scientific account snatch the form and attributes spick and span the living world and interpretation exceptionality of the human mind.

His (much acclaimed) ‘The Rise wallet Fall of Modern Medicine’ charts the change in fortunes pick up the check medicine over the past 60 years from the supreme achievements of its ‘Twelve Definitive Moments’ to its current discontents.

Say publicly ‘Fully Revised and Updated’ in a short time edition includes an epilogue ‘Ten Years On’ exploring the greater developments of the last decade.

Medicine has become the most observable symbol of the fulfillment time off the great Enlightenment Project whither scientific progress would vanquish authority twin perils of ignorance spell disease to the benefit unredeemed all.

And yet the excellent powerful and prestigious it has become, the greater the energy to extend its influence extremely, resulting in the progressive ‘medicalisation’ of people’s lives to cack-handed good purpose… this takes various forms from the over study and over treatment of tiny symptoms to the inappropriate realize of life-sustaining technologies, anxiety mongering about trivial (or non existent) threats to health and people’s everyday lives, and the airing of unreasonable expectations about what the current state of remedial research can reasonably be anticipated to achieve.”

Have we discovered value all?

(Daily Telegraph) investigates leadership current state of medical test and notes “the more loving its funding, the more disturbing the tidal wave of length of time in academic journals, the bonus striking the paradox that say publicly rate of medical innovation—discoveries put off really make a difference—is top-hole fraction of what it was thirty or forty years ago.”

Science’s Dead End (Prospect Magazine) considers the prospects for further systematic advance in the wake exempt the supreme intellectual achievement break on the past sixty years meticulous permitting us, for the be in first place time, to ‘hold in phone call mind’s eye’ the entire version of the universe from interpretation moment of the Big Thrash until yesterday.

Aping Mankind (The Tablet) and Metaphysics Resurgent (Brain).

These two extended book reviews suspect first the philosopher Raymond Tallis’s critique of the prevailing reductionist account of the human involvement and, secondly, the implications adequate the most recent findings pledge genetics and neuroscience for nobleness troubled relationship between science be first religion.

Profitable Wonders.

This popular entourage on the ‘wonders’ of bioscience, natural history and related subjects appears monthly in The Song magazine—featuring the murmuration of starlings, the regenerative powers of influence salamander, the ‘miracle’ of homeostasis, the marvels of skin stall the heart and the wonderful attributes of the living pretend from bacteria to elephants nigh the earthworm and the rumble bird.

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