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Tag: Health

Christopher Morten, Reshma Ramachandran, Amy Kapczynski

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.

Angus Deaton

The anti-regulatory ethos of libertarian economics has dire consequences.

David S. Jones

But awareness alone won't solve the problem. Here's what we should do.

James Nelson, Elizabeth Sepper

Even in states without bans on abortion or gender-affirming care, hidden religious restrictions in secular hospitals harm patients.

Eli Friedman

Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.

Joshua Gutterman Tranen

Harm reduction strategies, like those pioneered by queer men of color, have the best chance of stopping this disease.

Breanne Fahs

Our well-being depends on a better understanding of how the logic of labor has twisted our relationship with pleasure.

Rachel Rebouché

Boston Review speaks with Rachel Rebouché on the post-Dobbs legal landscape.

Marco Ramos

Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.

Rachel Rebouché

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.

Michelle Morse, Bram Wispelwey, Dorothy Roberts, Ruha Benjamin

A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.

Katharine S. Walter
Until COVID-19, tuberculosis killed more people each year than any other infectious disease. Its rising toll is increasingly fueled by mass incarceration.
Wendy A. Woloson
A cancer diagnosis reveals how pervasive consumerism has become, infecting even the stuff meant to heal us.
Adam Gaffney
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.
Brian Teare
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.
Sara Matthiesen
After Roe v. Wade, Angela Davis wrote about how the reproductive rights movement was failing women of color. As Roe is dismantled, her diagnosis is more crucial than ever.
Christine Henneberg
My patients and I don’t use words like “choice” or “viability.”
Wendy Johnson

Physicians have been fighting for health justice for decades. To succeed, we need practical models for collectively remaking our systems of care.

Judith Levine

The right to reproductive health and agency is a compelling state interest.

Kyle Harper

Our mastery over microbes is only a few decades old. It is also far more precarious than we imagine.

Andrew L. Croxford

Concerns about long-term side effects have helped fuel vaccine hesitancy. An immunologist explains why we can be confident in vaccine safety.

Andrew Spieldenner

“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.

Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako

If we want to address vaccine hesitancy in the health care system, we must treat its lowest paid workers better.

Anna Romina Guevarra

The pandemic increased demand and possibilities for automating care, but doing so may deliver racist stereotypes and unemployment for women of color.

Abby Minor
Liberalism cannot simply be extended to the uterus. Reproductive justice requires a vision of the social body.
Caley Horan

Private insurance companies have long dominated the provision of social security in the United States, but resistance is growing.

Julian Aguon
The U.S. Department of Defense is ramping up the militarization of Guam. If we hope to withstand the forces of predatory global capitalism, we need to begin articulating alternatives.
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.

Michelle Morse, Bram Wispelwey

Colorblind solutions have failed to achieve racial equity in health care. We need both federal reparations and real institutional accountability.

José Constantine, Ruby Bagwyn, James Manigault-Bryant
First, segregation blocked this Florida community from equal education and other public goods. Then the military–industrial complex sickened residents and destroyed their property.
Ellen Wayland-Smith
Elizabeth Catte’s new book examines how Virginia progressives believed the forced sterilization of poor whites would pave the way to a bright future—and how their legacy endures in national parks and prisons.
Rachel Thomas
As Big Data tools reshape health care, biased datasets and unaccountable algorithms threaten to further disempower patients.
Michael McColly
Indifference toward the most vulnerable has driven the death toll of COVID-19, just as it did during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Against this backdrop, even small acts of kindness can make a difference.
Adam Gaffney
COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on Black communities is just one of many respiratory inequities shaped by systemic racism.
Ravi Gupta
We must reimagine how to make life-saving vaccines available to everyone.
Matt Lord

COVID-19 is not just a public health crisis. It is also a crisis of public reason.

Zachary Dorner
Global trade, enslaved labor, and colonial warfare created demands for medicines that would work for anyone, anywhere. That pressure to view patients as interchangeable remains with us today.
Arnab Acharya, Sanjay G. Reddy
Ensuring a COVID-19 vaccine is available to all makes both moral and economic sense.
John Merrick

Pestilence and plague have often prompted waves of apocalyptic thinking, calling into question the steady march of progress in human history.

Mary Ziegler
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling is only the latest twist in the convoluted legal history of women’s reproductive rights. The future looks no less partisan.
Amy Moran-Thomas
Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.
Iris Chandler, Tess Lanzarotta, Marco Ramos
American medicine has long functioned as an elitist institution, putting professional prestige over the well-being of patients and physicians alike.
S. Subramanian, Debraj Ray
For weeks the country enforced a strict lockdown without providing adequate medical and economic support. As cases soar, its people are now paying the price.
Rachel Rebouché
A recent abortion ruling asks whether abortion access laws may one day be judged on how they serve women's health.
Jonathan Fuller
The debate over pandemic response is not only about the facts—including the grim death toll. It's also about the relationship between science and decision-making, where values inevitably play a role.
Trisha Greenhalgh
The UK government’s ultra-cautious approach to “evidence-based” policy has helped cast doubt on public health interventions. The definition of good medical and public health practice must be urgently updated.
Sunaura Taylor

Nineteenth-century reformers understood the deep connections between public health and environmental protection. That's why struggles for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal are two sides of the same coin.

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