Monrovia Mon Amour: A Visit to Liberia (1992) If Symptoms Persist: Anecdotes from a Doctor (1994) So Little Done: The Testament of a Serial Killer (1996) If Symptoms Still Persist (1996) Mass Listeria: The Meaning of Health Scares (1998) An Intelligent Person's Guide to Medicine (2001) Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass (2001) Violence, Disorder and Incivility in British Hospitals: The Case For Zero Tolerance (book published by the Social Affairs Unit, 2002) Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses (2005) Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (2006) (published in the U.K. as Junk Medicine: Doctors, Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy ) Making Bad Decisions. About the Way we Think of Social Problems (2006) (Dr. J. Tans Lecture 2006; published by Studium Generale Maastricht, The Netherlands. Lecture read on Wednesday 15 November 2006. ) In Praise of Prejudice: The Necessity of Preconceived Ideas (2007) Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline (US edition) (2008) Second Opinion. A Doctor's Notes from the Inner City (2009) Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline (UK edition; contains three essays that are not in the US edition) (2009) The Examined Life (2010a) The New Vichy Syndrome. Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism (2010b) Vrijheid en oprechtheid (Freedom and integrity), Pelckmans (2011), together with Bart De Wever Mr Clarke's Modest Proposal: Supportive Evidence from Yeovil (2011). Social Affairs Unit. Anything Goes (2011). New English Review Press. Litter: How Other People's Rubbish Shapes Our Life (2011). Gibson Square Books. Farewell Fear (2012). New English Review Press. The Pleasure of Thinking: A Journey through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas (2012). Gibson Square Books. Threats of Pain and Ruin (2014). New English Review Press. Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality (2015). Encounter Books. Out into the Beautiful World (2015). New English Review Press. Migration, Multiculturalism and its Metaphors: Selected Essays (2016). Connor Court. The Proper Procedure and Other Stories (2017). New English Review Press. The Knife Went In: Real-Life Murderers and Our Culture (2018). Gibson Square. The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurd (2018). New English Review Press. False Positive: A Year of Error, Omission, and Political Correctness in the New England Journal of Medicine (2019). In Praise of Folly: The Blind-spots of Our Mind (2019). Gibson Square. Embargo and Other Stories