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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.
An interview on the post-Dobbs legal landscape—and how the federal government can respond.
Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.
It is long past time for law and policy to facilitate affordable and accessible 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.
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.
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.
My patients and I don’t use words like “choice” or “viability.”
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.
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