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Articles tagged with health
In place of the hype over personalized medicine, we need a more sober evaluation of the meaning of health and health care.
Atul Gawande helped popularize the idea that health care spending is high because we use too much medicine. He was wrong: it’s the prices, and who pays them.
Harm reduction strategies have their roots in 1980s HIV activism, but they are starting to spread in rural America in response to the opioid crisis.
State policies shaped by white supremacy increase mortality rates in much the same way as other manmade health risks, such as pollution.
Debate over Title IX affirmative consent standards has assumed that consent is the best basis for a feminist sexual politics. But what if it isn’t?
The success of OxyContin hinged on racially bifurcated understandings of addiction. The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine, after all, has always been the race and class of users.
By examining the opioid crisis alongside the War on Drugs Murch brings an otherwise familiar story into new territory.
New Zealand’s response to medical misconduct should be a model for the rest of the world.
