Debate
Bad Medicine is an important and controversial book. Here are links to some online reviews:
"A genuinely thrilling adventure. An emotionally and intellectually gripping drama. Compelling originality and provocative thoughtfulness"
Druin Burch, The Times Literary Supplement, 15 September 2006.
To read the full
review, please click here.
"Anyone with an involvement with medicine - and that means anyone with a body and a brain - should read this brilliant, bracing and erudite book."
Seamus Sweeney, Social Affairs Unit website, 31 August 2006.
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review, please click here.
"Short but undoubtedly explosive. Should be standard issue for every first year medic." 4 Stars
Iain McClure, The British Medical Journal, 16 Sept. 2006
This can be found online if you
are a BMJ subscriber. For further details, please click here.
"Fascinating"
Yoel Donchin's review in Haaretz, 22 March 2007. To read the full review, please click here.
"A lucid, elegantly written and pleasingly slim book."
Will Cohu, The Daily Telegraph, 29 July 2006.
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review, please click here.
"Shockingly persuasive."
Catherine Shoard, The Scotsman, 2 Sept. 2006.
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review, please click here.
"This important book"
Ray Sturgess, The Pharmaceutical Journal, Vol. 277, No. 7420 p 405.
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review, please click here.
"A fascinating story."
Nick Rennison, The Sunday Times, 20 August 2006.
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review, please click here.
Michael Fitzpatrick, J R Soc Med.2006; 99: 530.
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review, please click here (subscribers only).
There have also been reviews in:
The Sunday Telegraph (28 May 2006) ("This is a very stimulating and thought-provoking book")
The Literary Review (June 2006) ("Stimulating and unorthodox")
Reader Review, The Guardian (November 2013) ("Thought-provoking, controversial, interesting"). To read more please click here.
There have been five very hostile reviews:
For Richard D. North's highly critical review on the Social Affairs Unit website, 31 August 2006, please click here. And for David's response, please click here.
Chris McManus, The Times Higher Education Supplement ("A determined polemic"). This can be found online if you are a THES subscriber.
Andrew Scull's review in Nature, 21 September 2006. Subscribers may access the full review by clicking here.
Steven Shapin's review in the LRB, 30 November 2006 (subsrcribers only). David's reply (which you don't need to be a subscriber to access) can be found here.
David has also written a letter for The British Medical Journal (BMJ 2007, 334:762), published 14th April 2007. Subscribers may access the acticle here.
Anne Hardy's review in Nature: EMBO reports 2006, 7:1199. Subscribers may access the full review by clicking here.
David has replied to the critics in the postscript to the paperback edition, which can be downloaded from the Afterwords page of this site.
