SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
?SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING
?'This is what journalism is for' - Observer
?Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS's flagship gender service for children.
The Tavistock's Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) was set up initially to provide talking therapies to young people who were questioning their gender identity.
But in the last decade GIDS referred around two thousand children, some as young as nine years old, for medication to block their puberty. In the same period, the number of referrals exploded and the profile of the patients changed: from largely pre-pubescent boys to mostly adolescent girls, who were often contending with other difficulties. Was there enough clinical evidence to justify such profound medical interventions?
This urgent, scrupulous and dramatic book explains how GIDS has been the site of a serious medical scandal, in which ideological concerns took priority over clinical practice. It is a disturbing and gripping parable for our times.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'At times, the world Barnes describes feels like some dystopian novel. But it isn't, of course. It really happened, and she has worked bravely and unstintingly to expose it. This is what journalism is for' - Observer 'A deeply reported, scrupulously non-judgmental account of the collapse of the NHS service, based on hundreds of hours of interviews with former clinicians and patients. It is also a jaw-dropping insight into failure: failure of leadership, of child safeguarding and of the NHS' - Sunday Times 'An exemplary and detailed analysis of a place whose doctors, Barnes writes, most commonly describe it as "mad"... Powerful' - Financial Times 'This book is a testament to the moral courage of Hutchinson and colleagues who sought to expose the chaos and insanity they saw while practising by stealth the in-depth therapy they believed young people deserved ... And Hannah Barnes has honoured them with her dogged, irreproachable yet gripping account' - The Times 'This incredibly important book shows that we still don't know how many children were damaged for life. I want every institution and every politician who pontificates about gender to read this book and ask what happened to all those lost girls and boys - and why they were complicit' - Daily Telegraph 'Truly illluminating ... a work of diligent, intellectually fearless reportage into the Tavistock Centre's child gender identity development service' - Sunday Times, Best Books of Summer 'Time to Think shows what happens when the exponents of an ideology, so certain of its righteousness, capture a field of medicine, silencing critics, refusing even to collect follow-up data on whether its treatments actually work' - The Times Best Books of 2023 So Far 'A powerful investigation ... The interviews with staff and children - some who have happily transitioned and some who have not - show how complex the issues are. Not a comfortable read but meticulous and thought-provoking' - Camilla Cavendish, Financial Times, Best Summer Books of 2023 'The testimonies in the book are raw, honest and moving. More than that they are a vital piece of evidence that shows - without prejudice - where things went right, where things went wrong and, remarkably, the thousands of cases of young people where we still don't know' Emily Maitlis
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Maße
Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80075-113-2 (9781800751132)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Hannah Barnes spent fifteen years at the BBC specialising in analytical and investigative journalism, most recently as Investigations Producer for BBC Newsnight. Hannah is now an Associate Editor and Writer at the New Statesman.
