<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Scurr, Martin</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Books: &lt;em&gt;Words in Pain. Letters on Life and Death&lt;/em&gt;</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">British Journal of General Practice</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019-05-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">252-252</style></pages><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3399/bjgp19X702569</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">69</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">682</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Olga Jacoby. Edited by Jocelyn Catty, Trevor Moore Skyscraper Publications, 2018, HB, 254pp, £15.00, 978-1911072355The Conway Hall library is within the headquarters of the Ethical Society; Conway Hall being the oldest free thought organisation in the world. Trevor Moore, one of the editors of Words in Pain came across this book in the library, a collection of letters written between 1909 and 1913 by Olga Jacoby, a woman dying of an unspecified illness, who records in her letters her fear of a long drawn-out death, her decision to adopt four children — an unregulated activity at that time — and her rejection of any formal religious belief, feeling that religion gave insufficient credit to the achievements of science. She writes: ‘… Science is turning …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>