Books: Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control: Malign Macrophages and the Madness of Mindfulness.

Abstract

Barbara Ehrenreich Granta Books, 2018, HB , 256 pp , £16.99, 978-1783782413 Barbara Ehrenreich is an American writer with an enviable breadth of knowledge, an acerbic wit, and a willingness to tackle the big issues of contemporary society — as the subtitle of her latest book attests. She has a PhD in cellular immunology, and the genesis of this book lay in her shock on learning that macrophages play an apparently dual role in the body, on the one hand encouraging inflammatory responses to …