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"My Own Private Medicine" by Owen Dempsey

  • 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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