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How Medical Misogyny Impacted the Treatment of Women’s Migraines

How Medical Misogyny Impacted the Treatment of Women’s Migraines

Tom Zeller Jr. Explores the Gendered Dimension of Neuroscience In the 20th Century

By Tom Zeller Jr. | July 30, 2025

On the Importance of Holistic Thinking in Combating Addiction

On the Importance of Holistic Thinking in Combating Addiction

Melody Glenn Asks Us to View the Opioid Epidemic Through an Expansive Lens

By Melody Glenn | July 23, 2025

How Dr. Marie Zakrzewska Created Boston’s First Hospital By Women, For Women

How Dr. Marie Zakrzewska Created Boston’s First Hospital By Women, For Women

Lydia Reeder on the Ways Female Doctors Fought Against 19th-Century Medical Misogyny

By Lydia Reeder | December 9, 2024

Oliver Sacks Letters to Thom Gunn: Inside an Epistolary Friendship

Oliver Sacks Letters to Thom Gunn: Inside an Epistolary Friendship

A Correspondence Centered on Identity, Love and an Eternal Search for the Self

By Oliver Sacks | November 18, 2024

How an Eccentric Doctor Began His Quest For Utopia in Weimar Berlin

How an Eccentric Doctor Began His Quest For Utopia in Weimar Berlin

Abbott Kahler Tells a Story of Alternative Medicine and Emotional Manipulation on the Eve of Nazi Takeover

By Abbott Kahler | September 26, 2024

Where There's Smoke... How Wildfires Across North America Are Making Children Sick

Where There's Smoke... How Wildfires Across North America Are Making Children Sick

Debra Hendrickson Considers the Impact of Climate Change on Her Career as a Pediatrician

By Debra Hendrickson | July 3, 2024

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Where There Is No Doctor: On Navigating Motherhood and Illness

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Why Are So Many Babies Born Via C-Section?

Why Are So Many Babies Born Via C-Section?

Allison Yarrow on the Under-Examined Assumption of Cesarean Birth

By Allison Yarrow | July 19, 2023

Anthony Chin-Quee on How Giving Up His Successful Career in Medicine “Saved” Him

Anthony Chin-Quee on How Giving Up His Successful Career in Medicine “Saved” Him

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By Keen On | April 4, 2023

Martin Dyar on the Intersections of Poetry and Medicine

Martin Dyar on the Intersections of Poetry and Medicine

“In the work of making doctors, a great deal of imagination is marshaled.”

By Martin Dyar | December 20, 2022

Secrets and Sickness: When a Medical Emergency Reveals a Wife’s Long-Hidden History of Cancer

Secrets and Sickness: When a Medical Emergency Reveals a Wife’s Long-Hidden History of Cancer

Barrett Rollins on a Terrifying Emergency and a Shocking Revelation

By Barrett Rollins | December 9, 2022

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David Barnes on a Poet, His Doctor, and the Making of a Literary Masterpiece

By David Barnes | October 24, 2022

How Creative Thinking Can—and Should—Inform Medical Science

How Creative Thinking Can—and Should—Inform Medical Science

Dr. Jay Baruch on the Value of "Not-Knowing" in Practicing Medicine

By Dr. Jay Baruch | August 29, 2022

Who Really Has the Authority to Write About the Pandemic?

Who Really Has the Authority to Write About the Pandemic?

Selina Mahmood on Making Space for Contradictions in Medicine

By Selina Mahmood | October 22, 2021

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