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"My Own Private Medicine" by Owen Dempsey

On Xenophobia during the Pandemic – A Lacanian Perspective
Lockdown Scepticism may have its roots in white capitalist supremacism
False reassurance and Mass rapid testing for asymptomatic Coronavirus infection and infectiousness
The Pandemic and an Ethics of Responsibility
The Moral argument in favour of Lockdowns
The anti-lockdown brigade and totalitarian threats
Zero Covid Strategy and National Lockdowns
The virus as taboo, and xenophobia
Why Locking Down (separating) is necessary
Clapping for Carers is Clapping for totalitarianism
The Totalitarian psyche: avoid over-using the term fascism
Totalitarianism
Emergence of a fully fledged fascist UK state
The Totalitarian End Game
Highland Palestine’s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign
Sept 2020 – the UK’s totalitarian move
Creeping fascism and the concept of disavowal
The capitalist unconscious is a fascist unconscious – a brief introduction
Reflection on time with CPT in Hebron, Palestine
A Covidyssey: Ermeticist poetry in a time of crisis
Coronavirus, mythologising social distancing, and fascism
Coronavirus, love and capitalism : a recipe for fascism
The Old Testament is a blueprint for ur-fascism
The bullying behaviour of the IOF and the immoral ideology behind it
Disturbing Hebron February 2020
The Mass Psychology of Fascism in the 21st Century – part 11 – the crisis of global transnational capitalism and nationalism
The Mass Psychology of Fascism in the 21st Century – part 10 – the Israeli sniper has no moral compass
Monitoring the settler tour Hebron, February 2020, Palestine
What fascism looks like – 2 – Israel
What does fascism look like – photos from the mosque check point Hebron
The Mass Psychology of Fascism in the 21st Century – part 6 : The Sense of Place and Identity in Hebron
The Mass Psychology of Fascism in the 21st Century – part 5
The sense of place in Jerusalem: 2020
A day on call with CPT in Hebron, Palestine – February 2020
The Mass Psychology of Fascism in the 21st Century – part 4
The Mass Psychology of Fascism in the 21st Century – part 3
The Mass Psychology of Fascism in the 21st Century – part 2
What is fascism?
The Mass Psychology of Fascism in the 21st century. Part 1
Who will defend the defenceless? Fascism in action in Israel in 2020.
Israel/Palestine – what can we learn from the 1929 riots
Peacemaking Work in Hebron, Palestine
Shuhada Street Hebron
A new book: Anticipation and Medicine
“Everybody knows the 2 state solution is dead and gone”
Partition
A novel: All the names by José Saramago
Slow violence and anticipatory medicine
Arms Embargo on Israel???
Gaza killings
2018 – Apartheid Israel and Gaza
Individual, Masse and Mass
The Anticipatory Care Paradox and Overdiagnosis: Subjective Pragmaticism trumps Objective Empiricism
Is there a choice to make: support Syrian revolution or resist anti-US/Fr/UK imperialism?
The reification of Palestine and Israel
Scary EBM rationality is beyond care
Diagnosing Healthcare Harms and Mis-diagnosis
The Poisonous ‘test’ and our ‘Species Suicide’
A curious copulation
de-radicalisation or proselytism in the name of `Western Terror’?
Evidence Based Medicine, Mindsets, and The Donald Trump Promise
Compassion also can be prey to the ideological
The Lady of the House of Love by Angela Carter
Shared Decision Making and Overdiagnosis as Illusory Developmental Psychologisation
Middle East – an outsider’s view from the UK
The ‘problem’ of the Salteaux Indians
‘illness, health, risk, vaccine, peanut butter’
Don’t we know we are mortal?
A Desirability Life Year
The circulation of apprehension
Psychoanalytic Chrysopoeia: the capitalist unconscious transmutates debased flesh into surplus life
The Northampton Peasant Poet
The Numerical as Labour Power
Now, can we think of a world without numbers?
A Faustian Pact – transforming patient subjectivities
‘Health Anxiety’ and Capitalism
The InCEST taboo and healthcare
My MP voted to bomb ISIS in Syria
Life trapped in the opacity of a medical crystal ball
Why every medical student should be taught Marx:
EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE’S ETERNAL LAW
Shutting the overdiagnosis door after the neoliberal horse has bolted
“BLESSED are the meek for they shall inherit the earth”
Are you aspiring to be normal or is the normal aspiring to consume you?
The medical test, dia-gnosis, personalised theranostics, capitalism and ‘process ontology’ – Marx was right
The Enemy Within – the lonely sadomasochist.
The flies in logical positivism’s ointment
The ‘truth’ of Evidence Based Medicine is its economy with ‘truth’
LAND OF STORMS : a film of young gay love, homophobia and murder. An alternative review.
Evidence Based Medicine, market penetration and the sexualised fantasy of normality
The uncanny creature-subject of healthcare in the ultra-neoliberal 21st centrury: Fiddling whilst watching Rome burn
Medical Fascism, Screening and Overdiagnosis – Modern Medicine is in Denial.
NOT KNOWING, SCREENING, AND OVERDIAGNOSIS
A perverse logic of normality is consuming us
The sado-masochism of Capitalism and the addicted Subject-of-Precarity
The ‘Abstinence’ rhetoric and the Pathological Heroin-Thieves
The transparent sheet that separates us from our patients (and madness)
Fodder for Medical Perverts – Zizekian?
Lacan’s Logic Of Perversion and the Medical Fantasy
Cycling Palestine 2017 by Louise and Owen
The Sublime Object of Medicine
The clinamen of Lucretius where “Error is the Mark of Life”
Misrecognition is Medicine’s Truth
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