Health

Big Pharma, Bad Medicine

Conflicts of interest undermine the goals of medical care and harm the public.

  • Marcia Angell
with responses from
  • Adriane Fugh-Berman
  • David Korn
  • Howard Brody
  • Dan W. Brock
  • Frank Britt & Marissa Seligman
  • Emma D’Arcy
  • Suzanne Gordon
  • David Bollier

Unhealthy Opposition

The value of academic-industry relationships.

  • Thomas P. Stossel

God, the Army, and PTSD

Is religion an obstacle to treatment?

  • Tara McKelvey

Malpractice

When it comes to health care, economists ignore their own rules.

  • Dean Baker

In response to Outside the Big Box

National Small Business Association is the leading voice of America’s small-business owners

  • Todd O. McCracken

Outside the Big Box

Who speaks for small business?

  • Nicole D. Kazee
  • Michael Lipsky
  • Cathie Jo Martin

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Delivering Health Care

A case study on Cambodia

  • Michael Kremer
  • David Clingingsmith

The Crucible

Sex Education in the United States.

  • Maureen N. McLane

Charles Murray’s New Plan

Ending the welfare state as we know it

  • Dalton Conley

Race for a Cure

Our health-care system is failing. What will save it?

  • Jill Quadagno

The Common Interest

Is it time for national health insurance?

  • John Geyman

The Primary Solution

Put doctors where they count.

  • Barbara Starfield

Getting Covered

Choose a plan everyone can agree on.

  • Ezekiel J. Emanuel
  • Victor R. Fuchs

Social Justice Is Good for Our Health

How greater economic equality would promote public health.

  • Norman Daniels
  • Bruce Kennedy
  • Ichiro Kawachi
with responses from
  • Michael Marmot
  • Marcia Angell
  • Sudhir Anand & Fabienne Peter
  • Ted Marmor
  • Ezekiel J. Emanuel
  • Barbara Starfield
  • Emmanuela Gakidou & Julio Frenk & Christopher Murray
  • Steffie Woolhander & David Himmelstein

Silence Is Death

An interview with the Rev. Eugene Rivers III.

  • Eugene F. Rivers III
  • Eva T. Thorne

Review: Books on Euthanasia

Two new collections of essays contribute to the public debate—with varied results.

  • Jyl Gentzler

Skirmishes

Battling cystic fibrosis.

  • Rosemary Quigley

Can We Control Disease?

Science’s victory over bacteria, viruses, and other microbes is far from assured—and we may be part of the problem.

  • Peter Godfrey-Smith

Abortion’s Past

Before Roe, abortion providers operated on the margins of medicine. They still do.

  • Maureen Paul

Identity and Immunity

In the face of the AIDS crisis, physical expressions of love are as revolutionary as the act of writing poetry.

  • Rafael Campo
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