‘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

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

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?

‘None of it’s true’: wellness blogger Belle Gibson admits she never had cancer

Gibson, who built a wellness empire on the back of claims she cured terminal brain cancer through diet and lifestyle, has admitted deceiving her followers

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

Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu collaborate on Book of Joy

The two ‘spiritual brothers’ are to publish a series of dialogues on finding ‘real inner joyfulness’

The Wild Oats Project by Robin Rinaldi – digested read

John Crace reduces one woman’s sexual odyssey through San Francisco to an orgasmic 600 words