THE IRRITABLE HEART
"..the unspeakable loneliness of individual suffering".(Wheelwright, p51) Many will be astonished - and dismayed- to learn that George W Bush has been nominated for the…… Read More »
Book Reviews
The Skeptical Environmentalist
In this book, Bjorn Lomborg claims to be addressing the real state of the world. Measuring the real state of the world is the book's…… Read More »
Journey in Depth
It's not often that the genesis of a book deserves a mention. This one does. Its contents were never meant to be written down with…… Read More »
The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
For all those who hold that brain is the seat of consciousness and that brain activity is largely determined by chemistry, Allan Hobson's book is…… Read More »
Darwin's God: Evolution and the Problem of Evil
The main premise of this interesting book is that evolution developed essentially as a religious idea: i.e., it makes certain assumptions about the nature of…… Read More »
THE PROBLEM OF GOD IN MODERN THOUGHT
Philip Clayton's enviable reputation as a scholarly and readable explorer of the boundaries between disciplines is built on his earlier "Explanation from Physics to Philosophy"…… Read More »
Listen to Your Body
Authors: Andrew Powell, Bisong Guo
Reviewer: David Lorimer
Some years back I read a book on nutrition by Jeffrey Bland in which he distinguished between 'vertical' and 'horizontal' disease. Vertical disease is when…… Read More »
THE FARMER AND THE OBSTETRICIAN
In this follow-up to his recent book The Scientification of Love Michel Odent pursues an original line of thinking by comparing the effects of the…… Read More »
Soul Medicine: Restoring the Spirit to Healing
Helen Graham has written a scholarly and challenging book. To chart the role of the soul in medicine and healing, she covers a huge range…… Read More »
The End of Modern Medicine
'We think of ourselves as conscious, free, mindful, rational agents in a world that science tells us consists entirely of mindless, meaningless particles'. This quotation…… Read More »