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  • 26 Oct 2022
    Chris Maloney, Julia Nelki, Alison Summers

    A Practical Guide for Professionals

    Our new publication with CUP, ‘Seeking Asylum and Mental Health is a practical guide to working with people seeking asylum. It is aimed at professionals and services in a range of statutory and voluntary sector roles, including social care, public policy, and the law, as well as health.

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  • 18 Oct 2022
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    Alison Summers, Chris Maloney, Julia Nelki

    Why words matter

    Whilst writing the book ‘Seeking Asylum and Mental Health’, we had to think a lot about words. At the outset we decided to avoid the term ‘asylum seeker’.

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  • 12 Oct 2022
    Benjamin Gregg

    Should We Modify Future Persons — and Our Entire Species — Genetically?

    A PROMISE THAT IS AT ONCE A CHALLENGE Gene editing offers great promise to reduce human misery and facilitate human health: to combat virus infectious diseases; to correct monogenic disorders in pluripotent cells; to program cells for regenerative medicine and cancer immunotherapy; to prevent parents’ transmitting serious genetic diseases to offspring; to correct mutations in […]

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  • 10 Oct 2022
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    Chris Maloney, Alison Summers, Julia Nelki

    Out of the fire … into the frying pan…

    Often ‘refugees’ and ‘asylum seekers’ are spoken of together, as if they are almost the same. But they aren’t. If you’re a ‘refugee’, it has been accepted that you can’t go back to the country that you fled, that you need safety, protection, and a chance to build a life somewhere else, at least for the time being.

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  • 4 Oct 2022
    Eivind Engebretsen, Mona Baker

    How to make sense of medical evidence?

    s vaccine hesitancy purely irrational? Are there good reasons for refusing to wear a face mask? These are some of the questions we address in our forthcoming book Rethinking Evidence in the Time of Pandemics: Scientific vs Narrative Rationality and Medical Knowledge Practices

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  • 13 Sep 2022
    Keith Frayn

    Understanding Human Metabolism: Fats, the butter on the bread of life

    Fat. What a terrible word. It’s what we don’t want. Actually we need a fast way to get rid of it.

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  • 22 Aug 2022
    David M. Greer

    Q&A with David M. Greer, author of Successful Leadership in Academic Medicine

    What inspired you to write Successful Leadership in Academic Medicine? Great question. To be honest, I was surprised to find out that there wasn’t already a book on this subject, and that people weren’t talking about the importance of leadership in medicine.

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  • 1 Aug 2022
    Keith Frayn

    Understanding Human Metabolism: Carbohydrates, the bread of life

    Keith Frayn, author of Understanding Human Metabolism address some of the major misconceptions about human metabolism.

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