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Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.
The anti-regulatory ethos of libertarian economics has dire consequences.
But awareness alone won't solve the problem. Here's what we should do.
Even in states without bans on abortion or gender-affirming care, hidden religious restrictions in secular hospitals harm patients.
Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.
Harm reduction strategies have the best chance of stopping this disease.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If we want to address vaccine hesitancy in the health care system, we must treat its lowest paid workers better.
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