What research can and cannot do for a song about waiting
Archeologist Anna Källén questions the role of a DNA in understanding the remote past.
The constant-ness of a condition. What it means for something to be ever-changing and ever-present at the same time.
A measles outbreak in the Ruggles family sends children to the isolation hospital and recuperation in the English countryside
This month we focus on the nexus of and interface between medicine and the humanities.
International adoption from China arose amid policy-driven abandonment, later fostering trafficking incentives and coerced family separations.
Sarah Kane’s final play fractures theatrical form to embody depression, psychosis, and the limits of language.
A sweeping new history examines how societies across millennia have regulated, resisted, and reshaped access to abortion.
Donald Antrim’s memoir confronts suicide, psychosis, and survival with unflinching honesty, blending personal crisis, hospitalization, and hard-earned hope.
A historic exchange, but an incomplete history.
A central theme of the novel is how people cope with the unpredictability of life.
A provocative novel about aging, mortality, agency, risk, and the uncertain bargains we make with destiny.
A visual form of storytelling comes into its own.
In his chair at the clinic, Dr. Gavin Francis sees the mind as much less fragile than the…
Writer, runner, and medical humanities advocate explores storytelling, trust, vulnerability, and the human side of care.
Medical nihilism questions medicine’s uncertainty, treatment breakthroughs, and how we make thoughtful health care decisions.
A nurse’s graphic memoir reveals the human stories, suffering, and compassion behind the AIDS crisis.
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