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• Sir Michael Peckham obituary

  14-09-2021 18:58
  
  Oncologist who pioneered modern treatments for testicular cancer – the jockey Bob Champion was one of his patientsMichael Peckham, who has died aged 86, did much to advance the acceptance of evidence-based medicine. This approach – using well-controlled clinical trial data for improving the treatment of patients – has never received greater attention than now, during the Covid-19 pandemic.In 1986 he moved from trailblazing clinical work as a professor at the Institute of Cancer
  
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• Sickert: A Life in Art review – master of malevolence goes for the jugular

  14-09-2021 13:31
  
  Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
  In this excellent, unsettling exhibition, monstrous men leer at women with violent intent in settings from Venetian bedrooms to sleazy London music hallsWalter Sickert was not Jack the Ripper. Let’s get that clear right from the start. Apart from anything else, points out the Walker Art Gallery in its absorbing journey into this menacing artist’s world, he was abroad for much of 1888 when a series of working-class women were murdered in and near Whitecha
  
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