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Meanings of Recovery – Exploring the Long Shadow of Illness

Meanings of Recovery – Exploring the Long Shadow of Illness

A symposium on ‘The Meanings of Recovery’ was recently held at the University of Surrey. Speakers from a range of disciplines and professional backgrounds came together to discuss the ways that recovery has been conceptualised by different groups across various... More…
On bulls, men and risk

On bulls, men and risk

Pamplona’s festival of San Fermín is best known for the encierro, or Running of the Bulls   Each morning, six fighting bulls are run through the city streets on their way to the bull ring.  With them run six steers and... More…
Exercise: how much is enough?

Exercise: how much is enough?

The last time I met a colleague, let’s call her M, she was sporting a limp and a walking stick. Her evidently painful injury had been sustained as a result of health-promoting exercise. Troubled by her injury M, with the... More…