Reading for Battle
Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Health & Well-being
Figures show huge rise in alcohol-related hospital admissions
The number of people admitted to hospital in England due to drinking alcohol has more than doubled in the past 12 years, NHS figures revealed today.
David Batty and agencies, The Guardian, 22 May 2008
The number of people admitted to hospital in England due to drinking alcohol has more than doubled in the past 12 years, NHS figures revealed today.
David Batty and agencies, The Guardian, 22 May 2008
Q&A: Abortion law
MPs have voted to retain 24 weeks as the upper time limit for abortions. But what are the issues in the debate and how has the law changed over the years?
BBC News, 21 May 2008
MPs have voted to retain 24 weeks as the upper time limit for abortions. But what are the issues in the debate and how has the law changed over the years?
BBC News, 21 May 2008
Care or concern?
Just how safe is alternative medicine? In the second extract from their book, Professor Edzard Ernst and scientist Simon Singh explain how ‘natural’ doesn’t necessarily mean ‘safer’
Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh, Calcutta Telegraph, 5 May 2008
Just how safe is alternative medicine? In the second extract from their book, Professor Edzard Ernst and scientist Simon Singh explain how ‘natural’ doesn’t necessarily mean ‘safer’
Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh, Calcutta Telegraph, 5 May 2008
From DNA of Family, a Tool to Make Arrests
Privacy Advocates Say the Emerging Practice Turns Relatives Into Genetic Informants.
Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post, 21 April 2008
Privacy Advocates Say the Emerging Practice Turns Relatives Into Genetic Informants.
Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post, 21 April 2008
Hybrids: separating hope from the hype
Recent weeks have seen a furore erupt over controversial laws that would allow the creation of human-animal embryos for research, with much talk of the sacredness of human life and the danger of scientists playing God.
Roger Highfield, Telegraph, 8 April 2008
Recent weeks have seen a furore erupt over controversial laws that would allow the creation of human-animal embryos for research, with much talk of the sacredness of human life and the danger of scientists playing God.
Roger Highfield, Telegraph, 8 April 2008
Health MoTs 'will save 2,000 lives a year'
Buses fitted with medical testing kits are to be sent into communities to give health MoTs to patients, under new Government plans.
Kate Devlin, Telegraph, 3 April 2008
Buses fitted with medical testing kits are to be sent into communities to give health MoTs to patients, under new Government plans.
Kate Devlin, Telegraph, 3 April 2008
Should we stamp out ‘designer deafness’?
Sandy Starr of the Progress Educational Trust asks why the UK government is legislating against something as rare as pro-deaf embryo selection.
Sandy Starr, spiked, 31 March 2008
Sandy Starr of the Progress Educational Trust asks why the UK government is legislating against something as rare as pro-deaf embryo selection.
Sandy Starr, spiked, 31 March 2008
‘Working for a Healthier Tomorrow
At the heart of this Review is a recognition of, and a concern to remedy, the human, social and economic costs of impaired health and well-being in relation to working life in Britain.
Dame Carol Black, TSO, 17 March 2008
At the heart of this Review is a recognition of, and a concern to remedy, the human, social and economic costs of impaired health and well-being in relation to working life in Britain.
Dame Carol Black, TSO, 17 March 2008
Life, Death and IVF
What this couple seem to have been trying to do is simply object to the Human Embryology and Fertility Bill which makes it illegal to implant a "deaf" embryo when a "hearing" one is available.
The Goldfish, BBC Ouch! Blog, 14 March 2008
What this couple seem to have been trying to do is simply object to the Human Embryology and Fertility Bill which makes it illegal to implant a "deaf" embryo when a "hearing" one is available.
The Goldfish, BBC Ouch! Blog, 14 March 2008
Making sense of testing
A guide to why scans and health tests for well people aren’t always a good idea,
Sense about Science, March 2008
A guide to why scans and health tests for well people aren’t always a good idea,
Sense about Science, March 2008
Stealing Picasso? - Sandy Starr - Law needs to be tailored to digital
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