• Health

    On Grief

    The Permanent Parish of Ceasing to Be: On Suicide as a Negation of the Self

    Thomas Lynch Explores the Contours of Grief in the Aftermath of a Family Tragedy

     
    By Thomas Lynch  April 18, 2024
    Medical history

    The Woman With the Mysterious Illness Behind Freud’s Famous “Talking Cure”

    By Gabriel Brownstein  April 17, 2024
    Neuroscience

    Information Overload: How Overthinking Feeds Our Innate Superstitions

    By Amanda Montell  April 10, 2024
    Women's Health

    What the Shadowy History of Women’s Health Tells Us About Its Uncertain Future

    By Clare Beams  April 9, 2024
    On The Self

    Who Are You? Identity, the Self, and Their Many Multiples

    By Mairead Small Staid  April 8, 2024
    Cancer

    Seizures, Strokes, and… Spurts of Creativity? On the Symptoms of a Brain Tumor

    By Rod Nordland  April 1, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Medicine

    Magic and Medicinal: On the Pharmacological Potential of Mushrooms

    By Nicholas P. Money  March 20, 2024
    Sex

    17th-Century Dildo Shopping with the Ladies: On the Contested Terrain of Early Modern Desire

    By Annabelle Hirsch  March 6, 2024
    Eating disorders

    Sororal Death and Sad, Sexy Icons: Emmeline Clein on Eating Disorder Memoirs and the Contagion of Identification

    By Emmeline Clein  February 28, 2024
    On The Self

    The Journey of a Madwoman: Between Facts, Memory, and a Fractured Self

    Suzanne Scanlon on Remembering and Returning to a Disappearing Past

    By Suzanne Scanlon  April 18, 2024
    Work-Life Balance

    Work-Life Imbalance: How the Pandemic Ruined Our Understanding of “Free” Time

    By Gary S. Cross  February 19, 2024
    Medical history

    More (And More) Meat: How Doctors Treated Diabetes Before Insulin Therapy

    By Gary Taubes  January 26, 2024
    Recovery

    The Splintering of the Self: Annie Liontas on Life After Concussion

    By Annie Liontas  January 18, 2024
    Wellness

    My Search for Answers in the Fringe “30 Bananas a Day” Movement

    Jacqueline Alnes on the Promises of Freelee The Banana Girl and Durianrider

    By Jacqueline Alnes  January 17, 2024
    Sobriety

    All the Books to Read While You’re Not Drinking During Dry January

    By Christiana Spens  January 8, 2024
    Blindness

    How Alien We Seem: On Being Blind and Obsessed with Photography

    By M. Leona Godin  January 4, 2024
    Illness

    Bedridden Listening: Sarah Wheeler on the Transformative Experience of Listening to Audiobooks While Ill

    By Sarah Wheeler  December 18, 2023
    Domestic Violence

    A Vicious Cycle: Jessica Strawser on Telling and Re-Telling Traumatic Stories

    “It’s funny, how sometimes the things you know for sure can still surprise you.”

    By Jessica Strawser  November 29, 2023
    Space!

    What To Do When Your Period Comes… In Space

    By Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith  November 8, 2023
    Community

    Whose Community Is It Anyway?

    By Casey Plett  November 7, 2023
    Drugs

    Panacea or Problematic Hype?: The Uncertain Promises of Ketamine Therapy

    By Andy Mitchell  October 25, 2023
    Reading List

    Enough “How-To” Books: It’s Time For More “How-Come”

    Jessica Elefante on Books for Understanding Contemporary Life

    By Jessica Elefante  October 25, 2023
    All Five Senses

    What is it Really Like Inside a Sensory Deprivation Tank?

    By Athena Dixon  October 19, 2023
    Doctors

    Where There Is No Doctor: On Navigating Motherhood and Illness

    By Diksha Basu  October 18, 2023
    The Human Body

    A Betrayal of Instinct: What Happens to Human Body When It Stops Eating

    By John Oakes  February 26, 2024
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