The Trouble with Medicine: Medical Distrust in 1970s Britain – Dr Caitjan Gainty

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November 26, 2026 @ 19:00 ( check your local time ) Watch live at https://twitch.tv/sitp In 1972, the Guardian columnist Ann Shearer penned a review of the physician/epidemiologist Archie Cochrane’s new book, Effectiveness and Efficiency: Random Reflections on Health Services. Though we tend to remember the book now as point of origin for our current “evidence-based medicine,” for Shearer and others who read it in 1970s Britain, it was firmly exposé.

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