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Julian Sheather

Julian Sheather is specialist adviser (ethics and human rights), policy directorate, BMA.

Julian Sheather: On spouses and the right to self-determination

December 21, 2010

I recently attended a seminar concerned with human rights violations of women forced or coerced into sterilisation, a joint undertaking by the Open Society Institute and the International Federation of […]

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Julian Sheather: What’s wrong with addiction?

November 26, 2010

Middle-aged; mid-life; mid-career. Party to the blessings – and the curses – of a young family. A sense that some things have been achieved, some are still to be achieved, […]

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Julian Sheather: On the terrible instability of opinion

November 23, 2010

We live in momentous times. Foundations are being shaken; long-held assumptions overthrown. The relationship between citizen and state is being redrawn. Consider only the health service. So much that seemed […]

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Julian Sheather: Is happiness a mental disorder?

November 11, 2010

Although undoubtedly a fine publication, I think it is probably fair to say that it is not every day that the Journal of Medical Ethics puts in an appearance in […]

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Julian Sheather: When patients become the enemy

October 14, 2010

I was out with a friend recently, a GP. He works in an inner-city practice. By all accounts he is a good GP.  As a mate I know him to […]

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Julian Sheather: Science, bad science and self abuse

September 30, 2010

I recently happened upon a fascinating article by Ben Goldacre – he of Bad science fame – on the ticklish question of the provision of pornography at IVF clinics to […]

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Julian Sheather: I want to be bipolar

September 15, 2010

Slouching around the internet recently I happened upon an article with a title that intrigued me – and one that I have shamelessly stolen for this blog. Where once the […]

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Julian Sheather: Doctors’ religious beliefs and end of life care

September 3, 2010

Early on in my ‘career’ in ethics – I put the word in scare quotes not only because the idea that my rather shapeless crashing about should be dignified with […]

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Julian Sheather: Medicine and nature

August 27, 2010

Synchronicity. The meaningful coincidence of causally unrelated events. It was the Swiss psychologist and all round weaver of the wind Carl Jung who coined the word. […]

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Julian Sheather: Are doctors better people?

July 30, 2010

It’s an odd question I know, but bear with me. It was prompted by a book I picked up again recently, “Open Skies,” a collection of Somerset landscapes by the […]

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