The authors consider the case for using drugs to alter our love relationships...

What is the price of a life?

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Can care be enacted through art?

Our conversation covers innovative progress underway in replacing reactive medicine with precision and prevention...

Tedeschi provides a wide range of answers to questions concerning knowledge of posttraumatic growth (PTG) theory, its synthesis and contrast with other theories and models, and its applications in diverse settings...

Alzheimer's disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it but a life-changing impact on those around them...

In this episode, we discuss the pandemic when it was a ‘perhaps’, unpack the blurring of reason and faith among expert interlocutors and draw out lessons on preparedness and its paradoxes for the present global coronavirus crisis...

Davies explains how and why a duty to contain contagion at the source or within borders became central to the contemporary politics of disease control.,,

In the place of dispensable banalities—"Hold on," "You will feel better," and so on—Scialabba offers an account of how it's been for him, in the hope that doing so might prove helpful to others.

Lupick explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of a city’s response to the drug crisis. It tells the story of a grassroots group of addicts in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside who waged a political street fight for two decades to transform how the city treats its most marginalized citizens...

Brain diseases are now the world's leading source of disability...

Whooley’s book is no anti-psychiatric screed; instead, he reveals a field that has muddled through periodic reinventions and conflicting agendas of curiosity, compassion, and professional striving.

Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves?

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Kravetz examines how German women physicians gained a foothold in the medical profession during the Weimar and Nazi periods,..

Jenkins engages readers in readers in a ethnography where she spent years observing and interviewing American, international, and osteopathic medical residents in two hospitals...

In "CTE, Media, and the NFL," Bell, Applequist and Dotson-Pierson use media theory to unpack reporting on CTE.

What is the role of the ambulance in the American city?

Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health...

How does the world of book reviews work?

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...