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Eric Reinhart is a social anthropologist and incoming psychiatry resident in the Physician Scientist Training Program at Northwestern University’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. He is also Lead Health and Justice Systems Researcher at Data and Evidence for Justice Reform (DE JURE), The World Bank, and an advanced candidate at The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Jacobin, boundary 2 online, Health Affairs, New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal, and Journal of Legal Studies. Find him on Twitter @_Eric_Reinhart.
As more and more doctors awaken to the political determinants of health, the U.S. medical profession needs a deeper vision for the ethical meanings of care.
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