We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs...

Nancy Tomes questions the popular--and largely unexamined--idea that in order to get good health care, people must learn to shop for it...

It is estimated that malaria kills between 650,000 to 1.2 million Africans every year; experts believe that nearly 90 percent of these deaths occur in Africa...

By digging into recently opened regional archives, conducting dozens of interviews, and visiting sites across Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, Brown sought to understand the extent of the damage from the 1986 explosion of Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4.

What role do visual media play in establishing a medical phenomenon?

Jungle medicine: it's everywhere, from chia seeds to ginseng tea to CBD oil..

Vivian Percy's new book is the narration of a mother and daughter’s long painful journey from tragedy, through opioid addiction, toward redemption...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Dr. Joseph Jarvis not only digs into how we got here and who is to blame, but he also lays out a solution for fixing the American healthcare system...

Hardin explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness...

In this book Carl talks about the importance of both a support network and vigilance when it comes to managing the disease.

In this book, Janis Powers offers a health care solution that is truly based on the American dream...

The alleged link between vaccines and autism has long been disproven, but it is still a belief held onto by the anti-vaccine movement...

The opioid crisis in America is considered by many to be the worst national public health crisis in the last 100 years....

While most people in the US are familiar with the ubiquitous Kellogg cereal brand, few know how it relates to US geography, science and technology around the turn of the 20th century...

With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender children are a brand new generation...

Joseph Lister changed the world of medicine...

Migraine headaches can be absolutely devastating...

Is alternative medicine quackery?

Suman Seth's new book Difference and Disease: Medicine, Race, and the Eighteenth-Century British Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2018) provides a new angle on the formation of modern ideas of race through the formation of the British Empire....

In this this interview, cross-posted from the podcast Psychologists Off The Clock, Dr. Diana Hill talks with Dr. Stephan J. Guyenet, neurobiologist and obesity researcher, about the unconscious systems that lead to overeating and weight gain...

Howard Chiang’s new book is a masterful study of the relationship between sexual knowledge and Chinese modernity...

Pillow of Dreams (Nivedita Lakhera, 2017) is an intensely emotional and inspirational collection of poetry and art by Dr. Nivedita Lakhera. She experienced a stroke, divorce, and then a heartbreak all at the young age of 27.

In Patent Politics: Life Forms, Markets, and the Public Interest in the United States and Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2017), Shobita Parthasarathy takes us through a thirty year history of the legal debates around patents.