Richard Smith's non-medical blogs

Success for the single patient record depends on citizens and patients owning their data

A stroll and discoveries in Chelsea

Mansfield Park: Is Fanny a drip or a protofeminist?

Messages I took from Virginia Woolf’s great essay “A Room of One’s Own”

Should the American government publish the research it funds?

Ivan Illich: the journey of water from mystical substance to an “industrial and technical detergent”

The importance of washing the dead (and the living, not daily but every three days)

An important book that shakes the foundations of research into Alzheimer’s disease—and has a message for all of science

The many loves of George Eliot, the last inexeplicable

Britain’s version of Giotto’s Scrovegni chapel: a “holy box” painted by Stanley Spencer in Hampshire to commemorate soldiers and workers from the First world War