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Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
A thoughtful conversation on aging, mortality, and balancing quality of life with survival in care decisions
When AIDS Activism Went Inside a Hospital: Ward 5B at San Francisco General
Documentary recounts San Francisco’s Ward 5B, where nurses and activists humanized AIDS care amid fear.
Blood in the Water: The Attica Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
A powerful history of the Attica prison uprising exposing injustice, political power, and America’s carceral legacy.
Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever by Kathleen Sharp
A gripping account of pharmaceutical whistleblowing, corporate misconduct, and the deadly consequences of profit-driven medicine.
Stories of Illness, Stories of Loss
An essay linking Holocaust memory books to the art of medical history-taking and illness narratives.
Embodiment as Performance: Anne Gridley’s Watch Me Walk
Anne Gridley transforms walking into defiant performance, confronting disability, discomfort, and rare disease awareness head-on.
I’m Sick, Therefore I Am: Illness as Normality in Nervous System with Author Lina Meruane
A conversation exploring illness as everyday reality, where sickness, care, and family life intertwine in an unsettling literary narrative.
4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane’s final play fractures theatrical form to embody depression, psychosis, and the limits of language.
Cinema Without Barriers: Disability, Creativity, and Comfort Intersect at RestFest
RestFest reimagines film festivals through disabled-led creativity, radical access, and care-centered viewing beyond ableist norms.
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick
International adoption from China arose amid policy-driven abandonment, later fostering trafficking incentives and coerced family separations.
Flushing the Script: Madness, Medication, and Patriarchy in The Housemaid
A thriller about psychopharmaceuticals becomes a feminist meditation on madness, coercion, and resistance within patriarchal domestic spaces.
Achieving a Good Death: A Practical Guide to the End of Life by Chris Palmer
A candid, compassionate review explores how planning, autonomy, and honest conversations can transform dying into dignity.