‘Curing Queers’: Mental Nurses and Their Patients, 1935-74 by Tommy Dickinson – review

A powerful study of how aversion therapy was used to ‘treat’ homosexuality exposes a nasty episode in recent British history

Hot Feminist by Polly Vernon review – reducing a revolution to sloppy self-help

Chillax, feminism’s not just about equality … it’s about having fun and eating avocado and sleeping around and having your nostrils waxed

The Ancient Art of Growing Old by Tom Payne review – how to improve with age

This reflection on ageing is also an intelligent and witty self-help book

The truth about poo: we’re doing it wrong

Who knew sitting on the toilet was bad for you? In her best-selling book Charming Bowels, microbiologist Giulia Enders explains how to go to the loo

Adventures in Human Being review – a fascinating journey around the body

Doctor and writer Gavin Francis’s essays on the human body, illness and injury are informative, eloquent and often very moving

The queens of greens: the new wave of cooks proving healthy food can taste great

From sweet potato brownies and sesame chicken salad to old-fashioned bone broth – you don’t have to sacrifice taste to eat well

Doctors Dissected and NHS for Sale: Myths, Lies and Deception – reviews

What is your doctor really thinking? And what does the future hold for the NHS?

Münchausen by internet: the sickness bloggers who fake it online

Australian blogger Belle Gibson has been exposed for fabricating her tragic cancer story. But her strange behaviour is more common that you’d think – faking disease in return for online fame is now a recognised medical condition

Bodies of Light by Sarah Moss review – engaging, multifaceted

GrrlScientist: Bodies of Light is a powerfully evocative exploration of the history of medicine, of feminism, and poverty in Victorian England

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty review – startling stories from the crematorium

‘Death-positive’ mortician Doughty explores attitudes to mortality in her enthralling memoir. Also reviewed: Brandy Schillace’s Death’s Summer Coat and GP Margaret McCartney’s Living With Dying