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The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity, by Johanna Hanink
Do ancient cultural ideas drive the insistence that Greece pay all its bills in full? asks Emma Gee
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Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane, by James Delbourgo
James Stevens Curl on a tome that emphasises the physician/naturalist’s role in transforming cabinets of curiosities into major institutions of the Enlightenment
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Immunization: How Vaccines Became Controversial, by Stuart Blume
Free market ideology has contributed to ‘vaccine hesitancy’, endangering us all, says Harry Collins
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The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture, by Heike Bauer
A study of one of Europe’s leading thinkers on sexuality contends that brutality is a force behind much queer activism and political thinking
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The week in higher education – 24 August 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Bath governance under scrutiny on senior pay
Remuneration committee member formerly led construction company that won £64 million in contracts from university
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There is an alternative to high-cost v-cs
Don’t blame vice-chancellors for their salaries – we need to rethink where power lies in universities, says Tom Cutterham
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Do we need a Hippocratic oath for academics?
It is time to consider how we can stop senior academics bullying their way on to research papers, says Trisha Greenhalgh
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Scientific doping will lift scholarship to new heights
Brain-boosting drugs can help students and academics alike to unlock their potential, says Hemmel Amrania
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What are you reading? – 24 August 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The state of higher education in Hungary
With the Hungarian government clamping down on universities and championing labourers over philosophers, David Matthews meets those living with the consequences
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The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew, by Yair Mintzker
Book of the week: Bryan Cheyette straddles truth and fiction in observer accounts of anti-Semitic persecution