Wed 6.06.12 | The Conquest of Bread
Wonderbread vs artisanal bread. It may seem like a simple choice between variants of the same thing, but for many the two are a universe apart -- one representing industrial production and American...
View ArticleTues 8.21.12 | Health: Disciplinary or Liberatory?
Health care is medical care, right? That might sound logical, but a number of people have challenged that notion head-on. Some have drawn connections between health and political power; others decided...
View ArticleTues 10.16.12 | The World's Deadliest Invention?
After the lawsuits of the last fifteen years, most people assume that Big Tobacco was dealt a mortal blow. Yet the 21st century is poised to see ten times more deaths than the already mind-boggling...
View ArticleMon 2.04.13 | The World's Deadliest Invention?
After the lawsuits of the last fifteen years, most people assume that Big Tobacco was dealt a mortal blow. Yet the 21st century is poised to see ten times more deaths than the already mind-boggling...
View ArticleMon 10.28.13 | When Doctors Err
Medical error is, by some estimates, the third leading cause of death in the US. So does the medical malpractice system work to compensate patients (or their heirs)? According to Lochlann Jain, that...
View ArticleWed 12.18.13 | Assaults on the Public (Sector)
Many nations' public sectors have been decimated by structural adjustment. James Pfeiffer describes what's happened; he also asserts that PEPFAR, which targets HIV-AIDS, degrades public systems, with...
View ArticleMon 4.07.14| Flame Retardants and Other Synthetic Chemicals
We may not realize it, but most of us consume toxic flame retardants and other chemicals on a daily basis. California has just overturned the mandate that flame retardants be used on foam, but the...
View ArticleTues 5.27.14 | Assaults on the Public (Sector)
Many nations' public sectors have been decimated by structural adjustment. James Pfeiffer describes what's happened; he also asserts that PEPFAR, which targets HIV-AIDS, degrades public systems, with...
View ArticleMon 11.17.14 | Radical Convergence Around Health
According to Theodore Brown, proletarian internationalism converged with social medicine in the early twentieth century; what emerged, he asserts, was a “health internationalism” rooted in the belief...
View ArticleMon 2.16.15 | Studying Lifespan
A groundbreaking study, conducted over eight decades, has shed light on what makes some of us live longer than others from the same socio-economic background -- and many of the results are quite...
View ArticleTues 8.21.12 | Health: Disciplinary or Liberatory?
Health care is medical care, right? That might sound logical, but a number of people have challenged that notion head-on. Some have drawn connections between health and political power; others decided...
View ArticleTues 10.16.12 | The World's Deadliest Invention?
After the lawsuits of the last fifteen years, most people assume that Big Tobacco was dealt a mortal blow. Yet the 21st century is poised to see ten times more deaths than the already mind-boggling...
View ArticleMon 2.04.13 | The World's Deadliest Invention?
After the lawsuits of the last fifteen years, most people assume that Big Tobacco was dealt a mortal blow. Yet the 21st century is poised to see ten times more deaths than the already mind-boggling...
View ArticleMon 10.28.13 | When Doctors Err
Medical error is, by some estimates, the third leading cause of death in the US. So does the medical malpractice system work to compensate patients (or their heirs)? According to Lochlann Jain, that...
View ArticleWed 12.18.13 | Assaults on the Public (Sector)
Many nations' public sectors have been decimated by structural adjustment. James Pfeiffer describes what's happened; he also asserts that PEPFAR, which targets HIV-AIDS, degrades public systems, with...
View ArticleMon 4.07.14| Flame Retardants and Other Synthetic Chemicals
We may not realize it, but most of us consume toxic flame retardants and other chemicals on a daily basis. California has just overturned the mandate that flame retardants be used on foam, but the...
View ArticleTues 5.27.14 | Assaults on the Public (Sector)
Many nations' public sectors have been decimated by structural adjustment. James Pfeiffer describes what's happened; he also asserts that PEPFAR, which targets HIV-AIDS, degrades public systems, with...
View ArticleMon 11.17.14 | Radical Convergence Around Health
According to Theodore Brown, proletarian internationalism converged with social medicine in the early twentieth century; what emerged, he asserts, was a “health internationalism” rooted in the belief...
View ArticleMon 2.16.15 | Studying Lifespan
A groundbreaking study, conducted over eight decades, has shed light on what makes some of us live longer than others from the same socio-economic background -- and many of the results are quite...
View ArticleTues 8.04.15 | Radical Convergence Around Health
According to Theodore Brown, proletarian internationalism converged with social medicine in the early twentieth century; what emerged, he asserts, was a “health internationalism” rooted in the belief...
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