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Articles tagged with health
Our well-being depends on a better understanding of how the logic of labor has twisted our relationship with pleasure.
Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.
As Roe is struck down by the Supreme Court, we bring together recent and archival essays to assess what is at stake—and how we might move from reproductive rights to reproductive justice.
Decades of biological research haven’t improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.
It is time to stop talking about Roe as the touchstone for abortion rights and to start imagining what law and policy can do to facilitate affordable and available services.
A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.
Until COVID-19, tuberculosis killed more people each year than any other infectious disease. Its rising toll is increasingly fueled by mass incarceration.
A cancer diagnosis reveals how pervasive consumerism has become, infecting even the stuff meant to heal us.
To meet the challenge of enduring spread in the years to come, we must prioritize primary care and community health over the profit-driven status quo.
Narrative medicine claims to champion the experience of patients—but it does so by requiring that the sick “earn” their care by telling a redemptive tale about what is wrong with them.
