Health Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/health/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:19:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Health Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/health/ 32 32 Building a Society that Values Care https://www.publicbooks.org/building-a-society-that-values-care/ Fri, 29 May 2020 15:00:25 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=36373 Aging Americans are cared for by family members or low-paid nurses. Both lack support for their necessary work, which COVID-19 has only made harder.

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]]> The Vegan Resistance https://www.publicbooks.org/the-vegan-resistance/ Wed, 26 Jul 2017 15:00:29 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=14391 In 2011, Oprah Winfrey asked her staff at Harpo Studios to take a vegan challenge: eat no meat, fish, eggs, dairy, or any other animal products for seven days. The episode, which has since enjoyed a robust afterlife on YouTube, included a visit to a Cargill meat processing plant, cooking advice from “veganish” self-help advocate […]

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