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The Decapitation of HealthCare: Review

February 18, 2020 by Samizdat Health 3 Comments

by John Dan Stone, Age of Autism, UK Editor A welcome for David Healy’s new, short polemical volume The Decapitation of Care. Healy as ever likes to express himself in terms of historical theatre — the comparison with oppressive political situations of past as well as the roots of this present oppressive situation in the […]

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"Use Your Head"

Manifesto As Method: Review

February 18, 2020 by Samizdat Health Leave a Comment

By Pamela Stavropoulos Author: Living under Liberalism Significantly, psychiatrist and cultural critic David Healy characterises his most recent publication, A Short History of the Rise and Fall of Healthcare as ‘the Health care Manifesto’. Defined as ‘a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer’ a manifesto is generally both a […]

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Health Care or Health Services?

December 7, 2019 by Samizdat Health Leave a Comment

David Healy is a Professor of Psychiatry at Bangor University. This talk explores the adverse effects of treatment, clinical trials in psychopharmacology, the history of psychopharmacology, and the impact of both trials and psychotropic drugs on our culture. David has been involved as an expert witness in homicide, suicide and birth defect legal actions involving […]

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The Rise and Fall of Health Care

October 21, 2019 by Samizdat Health Leave a Comment

For two centuries, thanks to medical techniques, our life expectancy increased steadily, initially in Western settings and then globally. For the first time in two centuries, life expectancy in America fell for three years in a row. Last year in the United Kingdom life expectancy also fell. In many developed countries, it has stalled. Something […]

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