The Wisdom of Whores

OK, it’s been ten thousand years since I’ve posted on The Wisdom site; I apologise for the long silence, which is explained by my being AWOL doing other things. For a while, I went totally of...

https://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2020/04/08/of-covid-and-condoms/

Most people spend long summer evenings in Paris strolling arm in arm around the boulevards, sitting in cafes or lolling in parks. I spent this weekend in the sewers. Am I odd in finding drains a ...

https://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2016/06/19/sex-in-the-sewers-paris-in-summer/

I’ve just emerged from three days buried in a bunker at the Geneva Health Forum, which focuses on health in lower income countries. There was a great cartoonist, but otherwise it was all quite ...

https://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2016/04/22/po-faced-presentations-dont-change-thinking/

Today is World Health Day. Judging from what’s in the Song of Contagion Twitter stream (@songfocontagion), this is above all an opportunity for a lot of lobbyists and marketing specialists to p...

https://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2016/04/07/world-health-day-healthy-for-lobbyists/

Yesterday, during a visit to the thought-provoking Museum of the Mind, on the premises of the Bethlem hospital (still active but now renamed), I was reminded both how far we have come in the trea...

https://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2016/04/03/madness-in-music/

As subscribers know, I’ve more or less dropped off the HIV map in recent years. That’s in part because there are so many other interesting health conditions out there to think about. And that...

https://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2016/03/30/if-hiv-were-music-would-it-be-loud-and-screechy/

Adult Intensive care ward at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, ©Chau Doan/Getty Images Recently, I have spent a good deal of time working on the issue of anti-microbial resis...

https://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2016/02/01/bad-medicine-is-not-better-than-no-medicine/

Last week I found myself at the House of Lords in London, discussing what the BBC World Service means to the world. The World Service stands for accuracy in reporting, a lot of very clever people...

https://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2014/02/03/warning-htmlspecialchars-charset-utf-7-not-supported-assuming-utf-8-in-homewisd0960public_htmlwp-includesformatting-php-on-line-3019bbc_welcomes_year_of_whores/

                                        In late 2011, epidemiologist, writer and adventurer Elizabeth Pisani granted herself a sabbatical from the day job and set off to redis...

https://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2014/01/16/warning-htmlspecialchars-charset-utf-7-not-supported-assuming-utf-8-in-homewisd0960public_htmlwp-includesformatting-php-on-line-3019warning-htmlspecialchars-charset-utf-7-not-supported-a/

It’s not often that proper reporters put their own reaction to the story they are working on front and centre, but it can be revealing. Have a listen to this wonderful From Our Own Corresponden...

https://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2013/03/14/the-good-side-of-homophobia/