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James Le Fanu

James Le Fanu

James Le Fanu writes a weekly column on science and medicine for The Daily Telegraph. His books include The Rise & Fall of Modern Medicine (winner of The Los Angeles Times book prize) and Why Us? How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves. His regular monthly contribution to The Oldie, Profitable Wonders, examines the profundities of living in an enchanted world.

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Articles & Blogs

Monty Don’s dance with wolves
Blog | By James Le Fanu | Oct 18, 2020

Monty Don’s dance with wolves

Monty Don has said wolves should be used in Britain to keep down deer. James Le Fanu examines the story of the wolf
Dame Vera, staunch patron of Help for Forgotten Allies - the Old Un
Features | By James Le Fanu

Dame Vera, staunch patron of Help for Forgotten Allies - the Old Un

The late Dame Vera Lynn never forgot the foreign veterans
Nature is deadlier than Novichok
Blog | By James Le Fanu | Jun 28, 2019

Nature is deadlier than Novichok

Ahead of a meeting with President Putin at the G20 summit, Theresa May has said that the two suspects in the Novichok attack in Salisbury must be brought to justice. James Le Fanu explains the science behind Novichok

Don't keep on taking the pills
Blog | By James Le Fanu | Jul 23, 2018

Don't keep on taking the pills

The new Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has urged doctors to send depressed patients on gardening courses rather than prescribing antidepressants. James Le Fanu lays out the perils of pills
Mary Shelley was right – Frankenstein’s electricity gives us life
Blog | By James Le Fanu | Jul 09, 2018

Mary Shelley was right – Frankenstein’s electricity gives us life

As the new film Mary Shelley is released, James Le Fanu explains how astonishingly prescient Frankenstein, her most famous creation, was
Gosport Hospital deaths – the result of handing out drugs like Smarties?
Blog | By James Le Fanu | Jun 20, 2018

Gosport Hospital deaths – the result of handing out drugs like Smarties?

At the Gosport War Memorial Hospital, Hampshire, 456 patients died after being given huge opioid doses between 1989 and 2000. In his new book, Dr James Le Fanu lays out the perils of over-prescription
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