James Le Fanu



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Full name: James Le Fanu (Dr)

Area of interest: Health and medicine

Journals: The Daily Telegraph

Email: [mailto:james.lefanu@telegraph.co.uk james.lefanu@telegraph.co.uk]

Website: Telegraph.co / Doctors Diary

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Agent: United Agents

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Current position/role: Health columnist / medical journalist


 * also writes/written for: The Times, The Spectator and GQ magazine

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Other activities: General Practitioner

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 * New Scientist magazine had to make an apology for defamatory remarks concerning 'Eat Your Heart Out - The Fallacy Of The Healthy Diet', 1987
 * Eye on DNA blog: Dr. James Le Fanu Rolls His Eyes At Genes by Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei, 11th June 2007

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Books & Debate:

 * Eat your heart out: the fallacy of the healthy diet (1987) OCLC 16680962
 * Health wise: an intelligent guide for the over 60s (1991) OCLC 26362282
 * Chattering international (1993) OCLC 29670531 (Social Affairs Unit)
 * A phantom carnage: the myth that low income kills (1993) OCLC 29468897 (Social Affairs Unit)
 * Environmental alarums (1994) OCLC 31075760 (Social Affairs Unit)
 * Preventionitis: the exaggerated claims of health promotion (1994) OCLC 30915972 (Social Affairs Unit)
 * Doctor's diary (1996) OCLC 37268738
 * Home remedies for common ailments: a handbook of treatments for all the family (1997) OCLC 52782969
 * The family encyclopedia of baby, toddler & childcare (1998) OCLC 60212499
 * The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine (1999) OCLC 223151979
 * How to get to live to 90 (2000) OCLC 226089616
 * They don't know what's wrong: does your illness baffle the doctors? (2001) OCLC 47939286
 * The family encyclopedia of medicine & health (2004) OCLC 224343578 (with Andrew Burnett & Sue Ronay)

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The Daily Telegraph: 'Doctor's diary'
Column remit: Health: "...writes on recent medical developments and puts forward readers' connundrums that are baffling health professionals."

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Role: Commentator

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Email: [mailto:james.lefanu@telegraph.co.uk james.lefanu@telegraph.co.uk]

Website: Telegraph.co / Doctors Diary

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Day published: Monday

Regularity: Weekly

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 * New Statesman articles