Category: Focus
Every month Medhum highlights timely themes in medicine, culture, and the arts, exploring their impact on human experiences. To view in focus topics we have covered in chronicle order, please Click Here.
LATEST IN THIS CATEGORY
Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
A narrative exploring tuberculosis through history, inequality, medical progress, and global injustice.
Children Who Remember Former Lives
An exploration of children reporting past-life memories, examining evidence, skepticism, and philosophical implications for consciousness and identity.
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.
Craftivism is Activism
From AIDS quilts to protest knitting, craftivism transforms domestic creativity into engaging tools for social activism.
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.
The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
A tense noir thriller where a young doctor becomes the prime suspect in a mysterious desert murder.
Margo Weishar: The Excellent Doctor Blackwell
Margo Weishar explores Elizabeth Blackwell’s hidden life, ambition, and sacrifice ahead of a public reading.
4:48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane
Sarah Kane’s final play fractures theatrical form to embody depression, psychosis, and the limits of language.
Feeling Dementia from the Play, The Father
Florian Zeller’s The Father immerses audiences inside dementia, transforming theatrical disorientation into visceral understanding and empathy.
Under the Skin, but Out of Focus: Bug on Broadway
Broadway revival of Tracy Letts’ Bug probes paranoia, race, and medical ethics.
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.
When Your Body Isn’t Yours
This essay examines how policy, culture, and power quietly claim women’s bodies worldwide.
Three Poems by Gary Soto
Three poems explore cultural identity, family conflict, and the influence of media on class, belonging, and cross-cultural understanding.
When Artificial Intelligence Talks but Can’t Touch: Marjorie Prime
As anxieties about AI and mental health mount, a new Broadway drama confronts grief digitally today.
Pushback: Mary Fissell looks back at 2500 years of abortion history
A sweeping new history examines how societies across millennia have regulated, resisted, and reshaped access to abortion.
