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In the era of the Internet and Oprah, in which formerly taboo information is readily available or freely confided, secrecy and privacy have in many ways given way to an onslaught …
Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems-birth, aging, …
Brazil's Zika outbreak revealed extreme health disparities and reproductive injustice across racial and socioeconomic lines.Brazil's 2015 Zika outbreak led to severe illnesses for …
What will happen when technology allows us to direct our own evolution?Transhumanists advocate for the development and distribution of technologies that will enhance human …
Developing best practices and ethical systems to protect and enhance patient safety.Human errors occur all too frequently in medical practice settings. One sobering recent report …
Finalist, Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, British Sociological AssociationOver a decade after medical sociologist Phil Brown called for a sociology …
How hype, money, and bias can mislead the public into thinking that many worthless or unproven treatments are effective.Each week, people read about new and exciting cancer drugs. …
Changes in health care have dramatically altered the experience of dying in America.At the turn of the twentieth century, medicine's imperative to cure disease increasingly took …
"e;One of the most useful books I've read about mental illnesses . . . It demystifies our complicated medical and legal system."e; -Pete Earley, New York Times-bestselling …
Why medicine adopts ineffective or harmful medical practices only to abandon them-sometimes too late.Medications such as Vioxx and procedures such as vertebroplasty for back pain …