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James Le Fanu


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January 01, 1950

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James Le Fanu studied the Humanities at Ampleforth College before switching to medicine, graduating from Cambridge University and the Royal London Hospital. He subsequently worked in the Renal Transplant Unit and Cardiology Departments of the Royal Free and St Mary’s Hospital in London. For the past 20 he has combined working as a doctor in general practice with contributing a weekly column to the Sunday and Daily Telegraph. He has contributed articles and reviews to The New Statesman, Spectator, GQ, The British Medical Journal and Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. He has written several books including The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine that won the Los Angeles Prize Book Award in 2001.

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The critical response to 'Why Us?' in the past few months could scarcely be more polarised spanning the spectrum from the gratifyingly enthusiastic ('refreshing and profound') to the remorselessly hostile ('a dreary rant'). This is only to be expected as its central theme – the validity or otherwise of the prevailing, exclusively materialist view of [...]
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The Rise and Fall of Modern...

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Too Many Pills

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Why Us?: How Science Redisc...

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Snap: Has Brain Research Re...

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Complete Home Remedies: A H...

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Phantom Carnage

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“Sometimes perhaps a short life and a happy one is better than anything we doctors can offer.”
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