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When Boston med school dropout Lena Gereghty, the narrator of Mayquist’s seductive if flawed fever dream of a debut, arrives at the Verdeau family’s imposing Back Bay mansion to start her badly needed new job, she has no inkling of the depravity and danger that await her. Natural Causes by Barbara Ehrenreich6/29/2023 But all these things offer only the illusion of control. We may buy expensive anti-aging products or cosmetic surgery, get preventive screenings and eat more kale, or throw ourselves into meditation and spirituality. But the latest science shows that the microscopic subunits of our bodies make their own “decisions,” and not always in our favor. We tend to believe we have agency over our bodies, our minds, and even over the manner of our deaths. Starting with the mysterious and seldom-acknowledged tendency of our own immune cells to promote deadly cancers, Ehrenreich looks into the cellular basis of aging, and shows how little control we actually have over it. One by one, Ehrenreich topples the shibboleths that guide our attempts to live a long, healthy life - from the importance of preventive medical screenings to the concepts of wellness and mindfulness, from dietary fads to fitness culture.īut Natural Causes goes deeper - into the fundamental unreliability of our bodies and even our “mind-bodies,” to use the fashionable term. From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.Ī razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, Natural Causes describes how we over-prepare and worry way too much about what is inevitable. But in 2005 a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that caused global uproar and violence. I was born and raised in Denmark – a free and secular country and for most of my life I have taken free speech for granted. Mchangama also details the rising threats to free speech, and how power is used to silence others, something our readers across the MENA region know all too much about. The book outlines the history of free speech as a concept, and how this fundamental right is our “first freedom”, from which all other freedoms follow. Our translators just finished translating his book Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media into Arabic and are now hard at work disseminating the book across the Middle East. Jacob Mchangama is a Danish lawyer, writer, and the founder of Justitia, a think tank that promotes and defends individual freedom, the rule of law, and human rights worldwide. An IBB interview on the triumphs and troubles of free speech in the Middle East. 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