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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women

by Naomi Wolf (Goodreads Author)

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"Unbelievably boring and out of date so far. A lot has changed in the 23 years since this was published. It may have been groundbreaking in 1990 but this is general knowledge now, frequently discussed in the media." — May 17, 2013 12:59pm

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Mixed Feelings: The Complex Lives of Mixed-Race Britons

by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

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""Apart from the occasional attempt to treat the subject sensitively and seriously, plays, magazine articles, novels and television programmes all tend to return to the same theme: that interracial marriages are fraught with problems and that mixed-race children are crazy mixed-up kids who are rejected both by black and white communities." - Anne Wilson" — Apr 24, 2013 10:59am

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Bad Pharma

by Ben Goldacre

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'Drugs are tested by the people who manufacture them, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques which are flawed by design, in a such a way that th...more From the introduction:
'Drugs are tested by the people who manufacture them, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques which are flawed by design, in a such a way that they exaggerate the benefits of treatments. Unsurprisingly, these trials tend to produce results that favour the manufacturer. When trials throw up results that companies don't like, they are perfectly entitled to hide them from doctors and patients, so we only ever see a distorted picture of any drug's true effects. Regulators see most of the trial data, but only from early on in a drug's life, and even they don't give this data to doctors or patients, or even to other parts of government. This distorted evidence is then communicated and applied in a distorted fashion. In their forty years of practice after leaving medical school, doctors hear about what works through ad hoc oral traditions, from sales reps, colleagues or journals. But those colleagues can be in the pay of drug companies - often undisclosed - and the journals are too. And so are the patient groups. And finally, academic papers, which everyone thinks of as objective, are often covertly planned and written by people who work directly for the companies, without disclosure. Sometimes whole academic journals are even owned outright by one drug company. Aside from all this, for several of the most important and enduring problems in medicine, we have no idea what the best treatment is, because it's not in anyone's financial interest to conduct any trials at all. These are ongoing problems, and although people have claimed to fix many of them, for the most part they have failed; so all these problems persist, but worse than ever, because now people can pretend everything is fine after all.'

I've unknowingly read Ben Goldacre's Bad Science column in the Guardian before, more recently a couple of days ago while researching a particular drug when I found out he was also a psychiatrist. Only a week before I'd remembered seeing this book in a book store and immediately decided to order it.(less)"

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