Category: Public Health, Medicine, and Science
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Weekend listening courtesy of Beacon Press.
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An excerpt from a new book about a family’s quest to cure their daughter’s debilitating disease by creating a sibling who could help her.
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What can we learn from Ashoka, an Indian emperor of the 3rd Century B.C., about the ethical imperatives behind universal health care?
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Maggie Kast had to come to terms with the “R” word in her own life. In this post, she looks at different perspectives on its usage as a slang insult and as a designation.
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The author of Dispatches from the Abortion Wars looks at the most recent battles in reproductive health.
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Video of Jonathan Metzl, author of The Protest Psychosis, talking about the history of schizophrenia and how its diagnosis became increasingly tied to race.
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Danielle Ofri, one of many doctors writing about their experiences with patients, discusses her own approach to ensuring patient privacy.
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In an excerpt from The Protest Psychosis, Jonathan Metzl discusses the process of finding “disembodied voices that told silent stories of what it meant to be incarcerated, or neglected, or entrenched, or immured.”
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A look at recent media featuring Beacon Press authors and books.
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