Tag: Health

Articles tagged with health

Eli Friedman

Escape from the Closed Loop

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

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Joshua Gutterman Tranen

What the AIDS Crisis Can Teach Us About Monkeypox

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

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Breanne Fahs

Nine Ways That Capitalism Is Ruining Sex

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

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Demonstrators wave pro-choice signs in front of Supreme Court
Rachel Rebouché

How the Federal Government Can Fight Abortion Bans

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

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Boston Review

Reproductive Justice After Roe

As Roe is struck down by the Supreme Court, we bring together recent and archival essays to assess what is at stake—and how we might move from reproductive rights to reproductive justice.

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Marco Ramos

Mental Illness Is Not in Your Head

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

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Rachel Rebouché

Roe Is as Good as Dead. It Was Never Enough Anyway.

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.

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Ruha Benjamin Bram Wispelwey Michelle Morse Dorothy Roberts

The Racial Capitalism of Care

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

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Katharine S. Walter

How the Other Half Dies

Until COVID-19, tuberculosis killed more people each year than any other infectious disease. Its rising toll is increasingly fueled by mass incarceration.

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Wendy A. Woloson

Selling Hope

A cancer diagnosis reveals how pervasive consumerism has become, infecting even the stuff meant to heal us.

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