An interview with Lauri Paltemaa

What is the price of a life?

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.,,

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...

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

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

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

How did the modern, American body come into being?

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

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...

The impact of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the country have been widely discussed—but what about the impact on New York City, specifically?

Dalrymple recounts each week’s new edition of the Journal with an eye toward analytical errors and a culture of political correctness in regard to the handling of medical and public health issues...

In 1978, doctors in Denver, Colorado observed several healthy children who suddenly and mysteriously developed a serious, life-threatening illness with no visible source...

Otovo explores the intersecting histories of race, gender, and class in modern Brazil...

Personalized healthcare―or what the award-winning author Donna Dickenson calls "Me Medicine"―is radically transforming our longstanding "one-size-fits-all" model...

How and when did Russia become a country of smokers?

Philosophy of medicine itself has evolved in response to developments in the philosophy of science, especially with regard to epistemology, positioning it to make contributions that are medically useful...

Katie Batza demonstrates in this path-breaking book, there was already a well-developed network of gay-health clinics in American cities when the epidemic struck, and these clinics served as the first responders to the disease...

In 1349 the City-Republic of Florence had just endured a horrific epidemic of bubonic plague, that contagion that became known as the Black Death...

Ramirez explores how laypeople impacted the new medical techniques and technologies implemented by the imperial state in the final decades of Spanish rule in colonial Mexico...

Why did Ebola, a virus so deadly that it killed or immobilized its victims within days, have time to become a full-blown epidemic?