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A Brief History of American Pharma: From Snake Oil to Big Money

A Brief History of American Pharma: From Snake Oil to Big Money

Mike Magee on the Dark Side of the Medical Industrial Complex

By Mike Magee | September 5, 2019

Understanding the American Drug Crisis: A Reading List

Understanding the American Drug Crisis: A Reading List

Ben Westhoff on How Nonfiction Helps Us Move Beyond the Headlines

By Ben Westhoff | September 3, 2019

On Narrative Medicine and Finding a New Language For Illness

On Narrative Medicine and Finding a New Language For Illness

Marcus Creaghan Considers the Ways We Describe Pain

By Marcus Creaghan | September 3, 2019

On the Brain: We're Not As Hardwired As We Think

On the Brain: We're Not As Hardwired As We Think

Everything You Do Changes Who You Are

By Gina Rippon | August 30, 2019

What Data-Driven Corporate Medicine Has Wrought

What Data-Driven Corporate Medicine Has Wrought

Terrence Holt Revisits Paul Starr's Classic, The Social Transformation of American Medicine

By Terrence Holt | August 29, 2019

What It's Like to Be Told You Have Dementia

What It's Like to Be Told You Have Dementia

“Little bits of me feel like they’ve dropped off and gone missing.”

By Nicci Gerrard | August 29, 2019

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Talking About the Pain and Anxiety of Menstruation

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A Mental Health Activist Confronts Her Own Inner Turmoil

By Leah Harris | August 27, 2019

On the Great Infertility Scare of the 1980s

By Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner | August 8, 2019

What the Beginning of an Ebola Outbreak Looks Like

What the Beginning of an Ebola Outbreak Looks Like

Richard Preston Chronicles the Epidemic of 2013

By Richard Preston | August 2, 2019

A Brief and Awful History <br>of the Lobotomy

A Brief and Awful History
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Groundbreaking Discoveries... But at What Cost?

By Andrew Scull | July 30, 2019

The Unsung Woman Who Changed How We Take Care of Newborns

The Unsung Woman Who Changed How We Take Care of Newborns

How Virginia Apgar Revolutionized the Metrics for Measuring a Baby's Health

By Dr. Catherine Whitlock and Dr. Rhodri Evans | July 24, 2019

Dear Rick Moody: How Can I Manage My Self-Loathing?

Dear Rick Moody: How Can I Manage My Self-Loathing?

Life Coach Rick Moody, Joined by Lidia Yuknavitch, on Body Image and the Power of Affirmations

By Rick Moody | July 23, 2019

Ronald Reagan Presided Over 89,343 Deaths to AIDS and Did Nothing

Ronald Reagan Presided Over 89,343 Deaths to AIDS and Did Nothing

Walt Odets on the First Years of the AIDS Epidemic and the Stigmatization of Gay Men

By Walt Odets | July 22, 2019

On the Fine (and Difficult) Art of Science Writing

On the Fine (and Difficult) Art of Science Writing

Randi Hutter Epstein: When Even Science Isn't An Exact Science

By Randi Hutter Epstein | July 17, 2019

How America Came Heartbreakingly Close to Universal Healthcare

How America Came Heartbreakingly Close to Universal Healthcare

Despite Funding Successful Socialized Medicine Abroad, the United States Opted for Profit

By Mike Magee | July 12, 2019

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