Tag: Book review
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‘Be mine’: a carer’s experience of dying
The act of dying is an event all humans face: it may take time or be over quickly without warning. Many health professionals have intimate experiences of others’ deaths, and many remember the first time they saw a patient die. In the last few years several books have been published on dying that explore how culture,…
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Demon Copperhead: disadvantage and resilience
While this retelling of Dickens’ David Copperfield has a strong thread running through it of the devastating effects of OxyContin on communities, it offers so much more than that. I recently reviewed Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, the story of how the opioid crisis in the United States unfolded with Purdue Pharma’s promise of a world…