Tag: Health

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

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

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.

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.

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

First, segregation blocked this Florida community from equal education and other public goods. Then the military–industrial complex sickened residents and destroyed their property.

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.

As Big Data tools reshape health care, biased datasets and unaccountable algorithms threaten to further disempower patients.

Amid widespread indifference toward the most vulnerable, even small acts of kindness can make a difference.

COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on Black communities is just one of many respiratory inequities shaped by systemic racism.

We must reimagine how to make life-saving vaccines available to everyone.

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

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.

Ensuring a COVID-19 vaccine is available to all makes both moral and economic sense.

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

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.

Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.

American medicine has long functioned as an elitist institution, putting professional prestige over the well-being of patients and physicians alike.

The government enforced a strict lockdown for weeks, giving the illusion of responsible policy. Poor people are now paying the price.

A recent abortion ruling asks whether abortion access laws may one day be judged on how they serve women's health.

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.

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.

Struggles for Medicare for All and a Green New Deal are two sides of the same coin.