As I eagerly await 麻豆传媒鈥榮 next book club pick, I鈥檝e been reading a book that has languished on my shelves for years. I wish it hadn鈥檛. , by science journalist David Adam, is an account of living with obsessive compulsive disorder. For him, and many others in the 1980s and 90s, it presented as an intense fear of getting AIDS. Adam navigates the topic so skilfully you never feel you鈥檙e getting to the 鈥渟cience bit鈥�.
I鈥檝e also been gripped by , a podcast about a fertility clinic where women had their eggs extracted without painkillers, after a nurse swapped fentanyl for saline. The series looks at perpetrator psychology, but it鈥檚 really about the shocking way the women鈥檚 excruciating pain was dismissed.
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On a lighter note, I took my family to the in York, UK (pictured above). What a treat! My children went wild, but we missed the opening of an interactive gallery, so we鈥檒l just have to return.
Catherine de Lange
Magazine editor
London
