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...class young women. In this context, being anorexic can be a way of achieving popularity and attention: Hayley (15): I always used to look at my friends and think that I wanted to be as good, or as pretty, or as clever as them. So, I decided that not eating was a way that I could maybe achieve that. (Evans et al., 2004, p. 137) Paradoxically, not eating can become a way of...

...De Felice and her colleague Dr Nele Pöldvere (Lund University, Sweden). They analysed 450,000 words of authentic British English conversations from a wide variety of contexts – chats between family and friends, informal workplace exchanges, formal meetings, university settings – to understand all the different ways people give and respond to advice. They found over...

...classed as older people continues to rise, along with the increase in their non-medical care needs, so will the issue of delayed discharge. In itself the delayed discharge of patients should not be seen as evidence that the NHS is failing. It is a problem and it is one that needs to be addressed. It is often the interface between the health service and social services...