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James Le Fanu

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.
He has made original contributions to current controversies over the value of experiments in human embryos, environmentalism, dietary causes of disease and the misdiagnosis of Non Accidental Injury in children. He lives in south London. (Source: GoodReads).

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  • Cover of: The rise and fall of modern medicine

    First published in 2000 — 6 editions
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    First published in 2009 — 4 editions
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    First published in 1991 — 3 editions
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    First published in 1994 — 2 editions
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    First published in 1994 — 2 editions
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    First published in 1987 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Too Many Pills: How Too Much Medicine Is Endangering Our Health and What We Can Do about It

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  • Cover of: "Daily Telegraph" How to Live to 90 (The "Daily Telegraph")

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Subjects

Self-care, Health, History, Medicine, Medicine, popular, Popular Medicine, Attitude (psychology), Brain, Drugs, side effects, Evolution, Evolution (Biology), Genes, Health and hygiene, History of Medicine, History, 20th Century, Human beings, Medicine, history, Self-care, health, Aging, Autothérapie, Biological Evolution, Biology, Diagnosis, Encyclopedias, Encyclopédies, Families

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20th century

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May 3, 2021 Edited by DavidGDudgeon Added a picture of the author
May 3, 2021 Edited by DavidGDudgeon Added new photo
September 3, 2008 Edited by RenameBot fix author name
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import