TY - JOUR T1 - <em>BJGP</em> Library: <em>Howards End</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 625 LP - 625 DO - 10.3399/bjgp16X688249 VL - 66 IS - 653 AU - Roger Neighbour Y1 - 2016/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/66/653/625.abstract N2 - IN PRAISE OF PERSONAL RELATIONS Howards End, EM Forster Penguin Classics, 2000, PB, 336pp, £8.99, 978-0141182131It would be easy for us — over-stretched target-driven bio-technicians that we seem to be becoming — to dismiss EM Forster and his novels as irrelevant anachronisms. The man himself was a rather prissy mummy’s boy, a closet homosexual, wracked with self-doubt; a timid acolyte on the fringes of the Bloomsbury set. Yet he was, and remains, one of the most perceptive and meticulous cartographers of the inner life, and his 1910 novel Howards End is, dare we but heed it, a powerful warning not to throw out the baby of humanity with the bathwater of science.The novel chronicles the entanglements of the passionately Bohemian Schlegel sisters — brisk Margaret and giddy Helen — with the prosaic Wilcoxes, a tribe of hard-nosed capitalists, … ER -