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Articles tagged with health
Physicians have been fighting for health justice for decades. To succeed, we need practical models for collectively remaking our systems of care.
The right to reproductive health and agency is a compelling state interest.
Our mastery over microbes is only a few decades old. It is also far more precarious than we imagine.
Concerns about long-term side effects have helped fuel vaccine hesitancy. An immunologist explains why we can be confident in vaccine safety.
“I was living in fast-forward, trying desperately to have a life before I died.” A veteran AIDS activist recalls living in the Bay Area during the 1990s, the queer people of color usually left out of the epidemic’s history, and how the decade taught him to value endings.
If we want to address vaccine hesitancy in the health care system, we must treat its lowest paid workers better.
The pandemic increased demand and possibilities for automating care, but doing so may deliver racist stereotypes and unemployment for women of color.
Liberalism cannot simply be extended to the uterus. Reproductive justice requires a vision of the social body.
Private insurance companies have long dominated the provision of social security in the United States, but resistance is growing.
