Category Archives: Health/Medicine

Disability colloquium: declining a Tory invitation

Open Letter Dear George Eustice, Re – Invitation on behalf of the ‘Conservative Disability Group’ Executive Committee to attend the Third Annual Disability Colloquium to be addressed by Esther McVey, Minister for Disabled People Thank you very much for this invitation. On reflection I have decided that the most effective way I can serve the… Read More »

Stigma and mental illness

This is a first blog written on my own account, so it’s offered with a degree of diffidence. At least the focus, on stigma, is familiar to me. The object is to reflect on ways in which the concept has salience for our grasp of mental illness. It is written in the wake of Ed… Read More »