Archive for April, 2010
To tell or not to tell?
28Apr10
Last week I attended an evening seminar on health journalism organised by the Patient Information Forum and held at the Trust. Jo Brodie’s written a decent summary of the proceedings on her blog. The presentations were interesting, though largely of a familiar ilk: both press officers and journalists are partially at fault, fitting responsible health […]
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Tags: Ethics, Journalism
Remotecontrollification
26Apr10
I know. Horrific, yet brilliant, word isn’t it? It was one of many puntastic new words picked up at the Nuffield Council on Bioethics’ Annual Lecture at the Royal Society on Monday night. Other terrible words I liked: obesessing, obesogenic (and turning society from that into a ‘fitogenic’ one). Not exactly what I was expecting to […]
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Tags: bioethics, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, obesity, presentation, puns