If you live in America, chances are good you’ve heard the term “mental health crisis” bandied about in the media...

Skinner constructs a comprehensive understanding of the politics of defining medical necessity...

Minerva discusses the moral concerns of cryonics...

It seems unthinkable that citizens of one of the most powerful nations in the world must risk their lives and livelihoods in the search for access to necessary health care...

Epstein explores four foundations of mindfulness — Attending, Curiosity, Beginner's Mind, and Being Present — and shows how clinicians can grow their capacity to provide high-quality care...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Over the last several years, overdose prevention has become the unlikely object of a social movement, powered by the miracle drug naloxone...

Adams' son is on the autistic spectrum, and her love for him becomes a beautiful and passionate engine that ultimately leads her to start a movement that may just transform how we see camels and how we see and treat autism...

Dementia provokes profound moral questions about our society and the meaning of life itself...

Pearson recounts France’s collision with the UN and World Health Organization in the immediate post-World War II years...

How did the modern, American body come into being?

In the aftermath of Prohibition, America’s top scientists joined forces with members of a new group, called Alcoholics Anonymous, and put their clout behind a campaign to convince the nation that alcoholism was a disease rather than a moral failing...

From its crude and uneasy beginnings thirty years ago, Chinese sperm banking has become a routine part of China’s pervasive and restrictive reproductive complex...

Becker recounts her experience as a patient in four different mental hospitals from 1957 to 1960...

Disease is a social issue and not just a medical one...

Spiegelhalter's work dedicated to "improving the way that quantitative evidence is used in society.”

Cabrera discusses three possible human enhancement paradigms and explores how each involves different values, uses of technology, and different degrees and kinds of ethical concerns...

Nielsen argues that the happy stories of breast cancer survivors are so common that any other types of narrative almost require an apology...

Handley-Cousins shows how disability was a necessary by-product of the U.S. Civil War...

Braun documents the history and present-day use of an everyday medical instrument, the spirometer, which measures a person’s lung capacity...

Fredericks makes sense of the garbage-scape of Dakar, Senegal in the wake of the 2007 trash “revolts” against the city and country’s uneven and failing garbage infrastructure...

We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at?

There are few areas of modern life that are burdened by as much information and advice, often contradictory, as our diet and health...

Russian medical researchers—along with their counterparts in France and Germany—were at the forefront of the struggle against cholera...

The remaking of Hanoi as a capital of French empire from the end of the nineteenth century had unintended consequences...