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The Body Book (Non-fiction)

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Rayner is Vice-President (and former President) of the British Humanist Association, a Distinguished Supporter of the Humanist Society of Scotland and an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society. She is also a prominent supporter of the British republican movement. Even so, Gordon Brown still invited her on to his commission on nursing and I know it gave her huge pleasure that, more than half a century after she started as a nurse, she was still being consulted on the best way to care for patients. It was something she cared deeply about, not simply from her professional perspective, but also from having been too often a patient herself. It was why she was president of the Patients Association and dedicated so much time and energy to it.

Can't remember the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth In 1999 Rayner was appointed to a committee responsible for reviewing the medical conditions at Holloway Prison, London, at the direction of Paul Boateng who was then the Minister for Prisons. The recommendations of this committee led to far reaching changes in the provision of medical care within Holloway.[3:] Plus she adored making mischief. If talking about abortion or underage sex not only helped people but also pissed off Mary Whitehouse and the bishops, that was all to the good. She relished the controversy that followed her advert for sanitary towels – now with wings! – even while it baffled her. There was also a pathological curiosity that, frankly, she needed. She has been held up, rightly, as an expert on sex and relationships – though, intriguingly, this can't be said to have come from experience. Claire and my wonderful father Des, who were married for 53 years, have often said that their relationship didn't leave much time beforehand for experience with others. But she was unflinching in answering questions and, as a result, people felt able to ask her the difficult ones. In doing so, as in so much else, she educated herself. And of course a strong marriage – and theirs was remarkable – gave her a concrete base from which to strike out into the world.We're sorry; this specific copy is no longer available. AbeBooks has millions of books. We've listed similar copies below. Claire Rayner, OBE, was an English journalist, novelist and television personality, best known for her role for many years as an agony aunt. Frankly, I had assumed that too. I grew up in a Britain where it seemed everybody knew who she was. Perhaps they did. The 70s and 80s, which were her heyday, were also the period of true mass media. If you appeared on one of the three television channels, and she did so an awful lot, be it Pebble Mill at One, TV-am or her own series, 10 million people or more would watch you at a time – huge numbers compared with today. And yet recently it became clear that there was a generation, generally those under 30, who had no idea what the words "Claire Rayner" meant. She is president of the Patients Association and is the author of a chapter in The Future of the NHS (2006) (ISBN 1-85811-369-5) edited by Dr. Michelle Tempest.

Claire Berenice Rayner OBE (née Berk; born 22 January 1931) is an English journalist best known for her role for many years as an agony aunt. Provides many answers for difficult questions children have, but it is a little odd and could be considered offensive. They bloody will now. As thousands upon thousands of people have made clear to me over the past week, she was, for so many, more than just the kind of celebrity the internet age has gifted us. They tweeted about her being an important part of their lives, about the way her Body Book for children provided their sex education. She was a sane voice that could be relied upon to help them make sense of the knotty complications of their personal, sexual lives. There were no boundaries with Claire, nothing that could not be discussed. And if it was OK to discuss it – being gay, cross-dressing, waxing and waning libido, abortion, the evils of child abuse and violent marriages, the taboos of incest or underage sex, the huge technicolour cavalcade of being human – then the loneliness of a desperate problem was mitigated. She was unflinching, curious, reassuring. She knew stuff and she was bloody good at communicating it.Did this have much of an impact upon us as a family? Oh yes. Having Claire Rayner as a mother was never dull. Early on, as one of the first women looking for ways to balance the demands of motherhood with a working life, she concluded that her home would also have to be her office. In time, a team of secretaries would work from the house, making sure every one of the 1,000 people a week who wrote to her would get the personal response they needed. That working life seeped into our lives. I will never forget the morning she opened the post to find that a chap, concerned at the shape of his erection, had lovingly carved a representation of it in wood and sent it her way. Later she used it on breakfast television to help demonstrate how to put on a condom. Rayner expressed delight to be an Ambassador for Hearing Concern in the charity’s Diamond Jubilee year: I got this for my 2 year old. It's honest and not cutesy which I appreciate. I was looking for a book that explained body functions, sex, and death in a to the point frank way without being overly explicit. This absolutely fits the bill. An introduction to the various parts and functions of the human body, including such aspects as breathing, talking, the circulatory system, the senses, the skin, hair and nails, reproduction, and aging and dying.

I feel that this charity represents people like me who have been part of the hearing world for most of their lives and have suddenly found themselves having to cope with a hearing loss. It changes your perspective on things which is why I am so pleased to be able to help Hearing Concern raise awareness of this hidden disability and get rid of the taboo that surrounds the deaf and the hard of hearing once and for all." In the 80s, when HIV/Aids emerged as a major public health issue, she was inundated with condom samples. They sat in boxes underneath her desk and we, and our friends, were encouraged to avail ourselves of their contents. More than once, friends (over the age of 16) who could find nowhere else to go to bed together were given the run of the spare room. Better there than somewhere unsuitable, she always said. Frankly answers children's questions about how their bodies work, how babies are conceived and born, and what happens as people grow old and die Of course, she was a lifelong atheist; there would be no haunting for her. But she was also a writer to the very tips of her toes and she was not going to let a small matter like that get in the way of a good line. It became the headline on many of the stories that announced her death on Tuesday, and on Wednesday inspired a question to Cameron in the Commons, which he had to answer to the sound of ghostly howling from the opposition benches. She would have adored it, and once again I was overcome by an emotion that has been ever-present this week: huge pride in everything my old mum achieved. I will miss Claire terribly and so, I know, will millions of others.

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