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Friday 27 September 2013

In Sickness and in Power

David Owen's book In Sickness and in Power is a detailed study of illness in Heads of Government during the last 100 years.(to 2007). That people in power, whose decisions affect us all, may have an illness or condition which may have serious effects on their judgement is not just alarming it can be extremely dangerous. David Owen who was Labour Foreign Secretary under James Callaghan is also medically qualified. In this book he considers how 'illness and therapy -both physical and mental- affect the process of government and decision making, leading to acts of folly, in the sense of stupidity or rashness.'
Part I is an overview but Part II has Case Histories of four leaders whose sickness was not publicly known.

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