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2007 Reviews

Bad Medicine
David Wooton

Reviewed by Chris Johnstone:
This is an interesting book, but it is hard to see what it is for. David Wooton does not do hatchet job on medicine, as in the recurrent trend, but complains about how slow we are to learn from our discoveries....

2006 Reviews

Armed Madhouse
Greg Palast

Reviewed by Chris Johnstone:
This is Palast at his best. Smart, quick, scathing and accurate. He tears through the Bush administration like Katrina through a levee...

The Bullet Trick
Louise Welsh

Reviewed by Chris Johnstone:
This is Louise Welsh's third book and if you read The Cutting Room and enjoyed it, you are in for a treat. Louise Welsh fulfills her promise and has written a very special book...

Reflective Practice Writing and Reflective Development
Gillie Bolton

Reviewed by Lesley Morrison:
I've just been indulging in some deep reflection. Actually, I've been preparing for my appraisal but deep reflection sounds much more appealing. And reflective practice is, indeed, at the heart of personal and professional development...

Secrets from the Black Bag
Susan Woldenberg Butler

Reviewed by Louise Hallam:
Some of you may remember reading extracts from this quirky collection of thirty two short narrative tales in the BGJP last year. I have no back copies of the journal to hand but the imagery and evocativeness of the contrasting deaths of two children made the stories instantly memorable. Alec Logan, deputy editor of our esteemed co-journal, is credited in the acknowledgment for his superb editing and as such definitely had first lick of the lolly in choosing these two tales to tempt further reading....

The Medical Detective
Sandra Hempel

Reviewed by Chris Johnstone:
This is a wonderful book. Intelligent, witty, engrossing and very informative. Everyone knows of John Snow and the Broad St pump, but this puts the man in perspective and his achievement...

Plundering the Public Sector
David Craig

Reviewed by Chris Johnstone:
David Craig is a management consultant poacher turned gamekeeper. He is rightly horrified at what New Labour has done with our taxpayer's money and has written an insider's view of what they have wrought...

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