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How Overdiagnosing Can Go Terribly Wrong

How Overdiagnosing Can Go Terribly Wrong

Marty Makary on the Industrializing of Health Care

By Marty Makary | September 20, 2019

How the Human Face of Medicine is Too Often Missing

How the Human Face of Medicine is Too Often Missing

Arthur Kleinman Locates Where Love Meets Health Care

By Arthur Kleinman | September 19, 2019

Anne Boyer: What is the Language of Pain?

Anne Boyer: What is the Language of Pain?

An Ugly Gathering of Adjectives

By Anne Boyer | September 17, 2019

On Attempting to Deal With Addiction Through Books

On Attempting to Deal With Addiction Through Books

Chris Fleming Discovers an Unlikely Ally in Marcus Aurelius

By Chris Fleming | September 13, 2019

Why Does Sickness Feel So Isolating When Everyone is Sick?

Why Does Sickness Feel So Isolating When Everyone is Sick?

Natalie Adler on Anne Boyer's The Undying

By Natalie Adler | September 11, 2019

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

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Understanding the American Drug Crisis: A Reading List

By Ben Westhoff | September 3, 2019

On Narrative Medicine and Finding a New Language For Illness

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

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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

Talking About the Pain and Anxiety of Menstruation

Talking About the Pain and Anxiety of Menstruation

"I had known pain before, of course. But this was different."

By Eleanor Morgan | August 27, 2019

A Mental Health Activist Confronts Her Own Inner Turmoil

A Mental Health Activist Confronts Her Own Inner Turmoil

Leah Harris on Suicidality, Mindfulness, and Meditation

By Leah Harris | August 27, 2019

On the Great Infertility Scare of the 1980s

On the Great Infertility Scare of the 1980s

Turns Out It Was *Actually* a Fear of Empowered Women

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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

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