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Public Health
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The Waiting Is the Point: Time, Suffering, and Medicaid
“To be poor and sick in America is to live in delay. The Medicaid system does not just reflect that reality—it enforces it.”
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“To Wither in the Same Way We Shall”: Talking Archives, Diseases, and History with Edna Bonhomme
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“I Am the Face of AIDS”: Ryan White and the Politics of Innocence in the History of HIV/AIDS
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America’s Medicalized Borders: Past, Present, and Possible Future
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“2020 Isn’t Over”: Eric Klinenberg on Pandemics, Politics, and Solidarity
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COVID: The Pandemic Without Honor?
“I don’t believe there was any conspiracy inside government to kill people off,” a health official explains. “From what I saw there was no plan.”
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Think like a Virus
Rather than accepting that a virus will come, we can learn how viruses live and thrive—and work to suppress them before they take off.
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India in COVID-19: A Tragedy Foretold
The lockdown had terrible consequences on India’s informal economy, and will deepen the socioeconomic inequalities that divide the country.[none-for-homepage]
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Pandemic Syllabus
Disease has never been merely a biological phenomenon. Instead, all illnesses—including COVID-19—are social problems for humans to solve.
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Listen to the Birds
Avian flu came from environmental devastation, an increasingly interconnected world, and a growing population—just like COVID-19.
