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  Sentenced to Life by Clive James. Published by Picador, 2015. Reviewed by Dr Sam Guglani.   On a ward round, I notice a colleague speaking with one of the palliative care nurses – about a patient, or perhaps about processes, maybe even about a personal matter. His posture, and what I can hear of his […]

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  Performance, Madness and Psychiatry Isolated Acts Edited by Anna Harpin & Juliet Foster   Reviewed by Femi Oyebode National Centre for Mental Health 25 Vincent Drive Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2FG Femi_oyebode@msn.com   In the spring of 1836, John Clare (1793-1864) visited Peterborough and accompanied Mrs. Marsh, the bishop’s wife, to the theatre to see Merchant […]

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