Health, mind and body

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• From the edge

  Nov 22 2008:

  Review: Aids Sutra: Untold Stories from India, edited by Negar Akhavi
  Anita Sethi is moved to hear the voices of those afflicted by a modern scourge

• Bred in the genes

  Nov 22 2008:

  Review: Blood Matters: A Journey Along the Genetic Frontier by Masha Gessen
  Hilary Rose finds hope and caution in a thoughtful survey of DNA-based medicine

• 'Plain old untrendy troubles and emotions'

  Sep 20 2008:

  David Foster Wallace, who died last week, was the most brilliant American writer of his generation. In a speech, published here for the first time, he reflects on the difficulties of daily life and 'making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot yourself in the head'

• How has The Joy of Sex changed since 1972?

  Sep 9 2008:

  Stuart Jeffries: Psychologist Susan Quilliam has updated the original with 43 new sections and it offers a woman's perspective for the first time

• Escape from self-help hell

  Aug 31 2008:

  Review: Self-help books roundup
  Supposedly enlightened writers are queueing up to tell us how to live our lives and earning a fortune in the process. Reader beware ... says Stephanie Merritt

• Battle of the boatmen

  Aug 16 2008:

  Review: The Last Amateurs by Mark de Rond
  Daniel Topolski relives the intense pressure of the varsity race that strives for Olympian levels

• The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight Against Aids

  Aug 3 2008:

  Review: The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West and the Fight Against Aids by Helen Epstein

• Scenes from cancer's theatre of the absurd

  Jul 20 2008:

  Review: Lopsided: How Having Breast Cancer Can Be Really Distracting by Meredith Norton and My Diary by Mio Matsumoto

  Two books provide wry insights into what it is like to live with breast cancer, says Geraldine Bedell, and why humour often seems the only rational response

• The survival specialist

  Jul 4 2008:

  After a difficult upbringing, Martha Beck went on to have a child with Down's syndrome, marry a gay man and realise that she, too, was gay. As she tells Emine Saner, who better to write self-help books?

• 'I was never about boo hoo hoo'

  Jun 26 2008:

  Dave Pelzer, who single-handedly launched the 'misery lit' genre with his horrific memoir of childhood abuse, is now publishing his fourth self-help book. In it, he insists that happiness is all about 'moving on'. So why does he continue to obsessively trawl through his own past? Decca Aitkenhead meets him

• The man who gave help to the helpless

  Jun 22 2008:

  The MSF doctor James Orbinski offers chilling truths from the front line, says Edward Marriott

• Love's alchemy

  Jun 14 2008:

  Rebecca Abrams delights in the psychologist Charles Fernyhough's tender account of his daughter's first three years, The Baby in the Mirror

• I'm only doing this to save my marriage

  Jun 10 2008:

  Thanks to a new self-help book, When Good People Have Affairs, we now know that there might be all sorts of reasonable excuses for adultery. Zoe Williams has even come up with a few more of her own ...

• Could you make 28 meals from this?

  Jun 4 2008:

  A new book claims it can save you time and money and reduce your eco impact - with its seasonal shopping and cooking plans. Zoe Williams gives it a go

• Right all along

  May 24 2008:

  On reading Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson's Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me), David Newnham warns on the dangers of relying on one's memory

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