Medicine
A significant internal problem for the left is that the term "neoliberalism" is used as an epithet that now means "anything Democrats do that I don't like." This is a.
I have never understood the idea of women putting themselves through extreme pain in childbirth so they could feel "natural." Now, I've never been through childbirth nor do I have.
Last week, we all got a refresher on the problems with capitalist markets in pharmaceuticals. Martin Skhreli raised the cost of an HIV drug by 5000 percent, causing an outrage.
Sure Martin Shkreli is human scum. But as a capitalist, isn't he doing what he is supposed to be doing? The goal is to make money. Anything getting in the.
Here's some interesting newly available books on and about the Civil War from the 19th and early 20th centuries. They include Pain and Anaesthetics: An Essay, from 1862, by Valentine.
Earlier this week, Jessica Valenti suggested in a column that tampons should be free. I had never really thought about this before, being a guy and all, but it is.
Yglesias has been reading Middlekauf and tries to learn lessons on modern health care from the disastrous medicine of the time: I think discussions of health care economics pay far.