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Tending the Fire: Exploring AIDS Writing of the Last Ten Years

Tending the Fire: Exploring AIDS Writing of the Last Ten Years

Sara Youngblood Gregory on the Possibilities Offered For Queer Literature by Speculative Fiction

By Sara Youngblood Gregory | May 29, 2026

How Medieval Doctors, Christian and Muslim, Treated the Black Death

How Medieval Doctors, Christian and Muslim, Treated the Black Death

Thomas Asbridge Considers the Influence of Religious Tradition on Medical Practice in the Middle Ages

By Thomas Asbridge | May 27, 2026

Why Pope Leo quoted Gandalf in his response to the rise of AI.

Why Pope Leo quoted Gandalf in his response to the rise of AI.

By Brittany Allen | May 26, 2026

Our Hormones Make Us Who We Are

Our Hormones Make Us Who We Are

Dr. Saira Hameed on the Endocrinologist as Detective

By Dr. Saira Hameed | May 20, 2026

Navigating the Coming-of-Illness Narrative

Navigating the Coming-of-Illness Narrative

“We need these stories, because they reveal a potent truth: no one is immune to illness and death.”

By Lorraine Boissoneault | May 18, 2026

Alice and Me: How My Struggle With Cancer Mirrored My Protagonist’s

Alice and Me: How My Struggle With Cancer Mirrored My Protagonist’s

Caitlin Shetterly on Grappling With the Uncanny Parallels Between Real Life and Fiction

By Caitlin Shetterly | May 18, 2026

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Chet’la Sebree on How Chronic Illness Forever Altered Her Literary Life

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Eight Memoirs About Medicine, Illness, and Healing

By Fazlur Rahman | May 14, 2026

A Complex Yet Crucial Chemical: Exposing Myths About Dopamine

By Masud Husain | May 13, 2026

Where I End, the Writing Begins: What Undergoing Surgery Taught Me About Transcendence

Where I End, the Writing Begins: What Undergoing Surgery Taught Me About Transcendence

Diane Les Becquets: “And I watched those moments unfold before me, as if in real time, and I felt everything.”

By Diane Les Becquets | May 7, 2026

Deafness Should Be Allowed to Be Unremarkable

Deafness Should Be Allowed to Be Unremarkable

Sara Novic on Hiding Her Deafness in Plain Sight

By Sara Nović | May 5, 2026

What Animal Parents Teach Humans About Care

What Animal Parents Teach Humans About Care

Elizabeth Preston on How Humans Are Born to Care for Others

By Elizabeth Preston | May 5, 2026

Leila Chatti on the Many Ways to Be (and Not to Be) a Mother

Leila Chatti on the Many Ways to Be (and Not to Be) a Mother

“IVF is a kind of miracle, but doctors are not gods.”

By Leila Chatti | April 29, 2026

I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You About My Book

I Wish I Didn’t Have to Tell You About My Book

Madeline Vosch on Writing a Memoir About Suicide

By Madeline Vosch | April 29, 2026

The Medicalization of Madness: How Schizophrenia Was Treated Throughout the Ages

The Medicalization of Madness: How Schizophrenia Was Treated Throughout the Ages

Justin Garson on the Influence of Psychoanalysis on Psychiatry’s Development

By Justin Garson | April 28, 2026

How Diet Culture Ruins Lives

How Diet Culture Ruins Lives

Geneen Roth on Learning to Live With (and Love) Her Own Body

By Geneen Roth | April 24, 2026

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