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David Southall: Determined, honest, and anxious
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David Southall, 68, is a paediatrician whose career was wrecked when the General Medical Council failed to deal fairly and expeditiously with a series of complaints made against him by parents. After a long legal battle he was eventually cleared, but the GMC’s reputation has never fully recovered. His clinical work, using covert video surveillance, had shown parents deliberately injuring their children, triggering a vitriolic campaign against him that lasted 20 years. In the s he worked in the former Yugoslavia treating children who were victims of the war, and on his return he started the charity now known as Maternal and Childhealth Advocacy International (MCAI).
What was your earliest ambition?
To be a doctor or a vet.
Who has been your biggest inspiration?
A priest in northern Sri Lanka I met during the armed conflict
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Extreme Environment - How Environmental Exaggeration Harms Emerging Economies
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Extreme Environment promises to provoke fresh and spirited debate about the modern environmental movement and the many ways in which environmentalism, media, economics, public policy and the politics of liberty intersect.
Softcover. English. Zebra Press. ISBN: pp. Good condition. Book No:
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Ernest Pépin
Live Anthology: taboos of love and literature
With: Antjie Krog, Ayu Utami, Basil Appollis, Ernest Pépin, Fouad Laroui, Frank Martinus Arion, Gerrit Komrij, Manon Uphoff, Michaël Zeeman, Pauline Melville
'These are the same people who used to think that anything goes and everything should be allowed. Now they want to prohibit everything which they suspect might bring enjoyment to someone else' (Gerrit Komrij).
Maybe 'taboo' is the most culturally specific notion possible. In the Netherlands, taboos in love or literature seem out of date since the s. But in South Africa, a novel about homosexuality comes as a shock, and a South African makes internationally controversial movies about power, love and violence. Cultures collide when talking about taboos, so this should be a great starting point for a discussion with a collection of internationally renowned authors. This afternoon, eight writers read their favorite fragments from world literature with