Medicine Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/medicine/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:20:19 +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 Medicine Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/medicine/ 32 32 What Future for Health Activism? https://www.publicbooks.org/what-future-for-health-activism/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:00:38 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=50686 A more critical consciousness of the connections between family, health, race, and gender was brewing among food allergy advocates in the exceptionally catastrophic summer of 2020.

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]]> COVID: The Pandemic Without Honor? https://www.publicbooks.org/british-state-responses-covid-richard-horton-jeremy-farrar/ Thu, 07 Apr 2022 15:00:51 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=48149 “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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]]> Love and Other Liberties https://www.publicbooks.org/love-and-other-liberties/ Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:00:57 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=44514 Libertie presents a revolutionary vision of what life could be like for Black women in the 19th century.

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]]> Episode 4: Data & Infrastructure https://www.publicbooks.org/episode-4-data-infrastructure/ Mon, 07 Jun 2021 11:00:09 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=42397 Whose values get embedded into the algorithms that increasingly govern our lives? How are these data infrastructures complicating what it means to be human?

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]]> The Matter of Time https://www.publicbooks.org/the-matter-of-time/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 16:00:04 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=40859 Versailles treated the people of Greater Syria and Iraq—Muslims, Christians, and Jews alike—as inferiors in need of “civilizational therapy.”

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]]> Public Thinker: Shobita Parthasarathy on Why We Need to Diversify Expertise https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-shobita-parthasarathy-on-why-we-need-to-diversify-expertise/ Mon, 04 Jan 2021 16:00:25 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=40495 “I'll say something controversial. Bioethics tends to not interrogate the details of science, let alone the more technical questions.”[none-for-homepage]

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]]> India in COVID-19: A Tragedy Foretold https://www.publicbooks.org/india-in-covid-19-a-tragedy-foretold/ Tue, 18 Aug 2020 15:00:17 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=38088 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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]]> World without Antibiotics https://www.publicbooks.org/world-without-antibiotics/ Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:09:52 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=16835 Sepsis: a systemic response to infection. The body gone wild. A reaction disproportionate to its cause, one that refuses to respect the division between hearts and limbs. Diagnosing sepsis requires a sense of proper proportions. And in Surgeon X, a comic series ...

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]]> Keyword of the Week: Healthcare https://www.publicbooks.org/keyword-week-healthcare/ Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:00:29 +0000 http://www.publicbooks.org/?p=12244 House Republicans are attempting to replace the Affordable Care Act with legislation that that would disadvantage sick and low-income Americans. This week’s Public Bookshelf  features four articles about health and health care, on topics ranging from immigrants and illness to comics about medicine. Show Me Where it Hurts: Part 1 11.15.2015 Jared Gardner Illness, mental and physical, is arguably comics’ invisible master theme, deeply woven into […]

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