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The Health of Us ‹ Literary Hub

WebClaudia Rankine Claudia Rankine is the author of Citizen: An American Lyric and four previous books, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.Her work …

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Healthcare Has a Race—and Gender—Problem ‹ Literary Hub

WebFor centuries, feminism has fought for the rights of all people to not have their lives limited by their basic biology. But medicine has inherited a gender problem. Medical …

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Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf’s Writings About Illness

WebHere, Woolf achieves two things: she argues that illness has been unfairly dismissed as unworthy of representation in literature, and, before she has even made this argument, …

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Writing a Novel Through Illness: On the Inseparability of Body and …

WebIn the winter of 2021, I completed a new novel within days of receiving a diagnosis of an untreatable terminal illness (ALS). The novel was written quickly—more …

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How America Came Heartbreakingly Close to Universal Healthcare

WebJuly 12, 2019. As was recently, and perhaps shockingly, reported, life expectancy gains in the US, which plateaued in 2012, have declined for the past two years. The CDC’s …

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How Chaos Theory Can Revitalize—and Save—Modern Medicine

WebMay 10, 2023. Ninety-nine years before I was born, Alice James collapsed. She was nineteen years old in 1868, two years younger than I would be when illness took me …

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How Racial Bias and Healthcare Inequality Are Killing Black Patients

WebConsider, also, the death rate from breast cancer for Black women is 50 percent higher than for white women. One reason is that only 60 percent of low-income …

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How Anxiety Evolved Through the Middle Ages and Early Modern …

WebAnxiety emerged at those fault lines, where free will collided with the vicissitudes of random fate and unpredictable passions. Later generations would call it …

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At Least You Have Your Health

WebHost Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Michele Cobb discuss Madi Sinha’s newest novel, At Least You Have Your Health, narrated by Golden Voice Soneela Nankani. …

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On the Importance of How We Write Mental Illness in Fiction

WebLouise Nealon is a writer from County Kildare, Ireland. In 2017, she won the Seán Ó Faoláin International Short Story Competition and was the recipient of the …

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On the Victorian Science and Prejudices Behind Bram Stoker’s

WebAs a result, the village exhumed 19-year-old Mercy Brown on January 17, 1892. She would go on to inspire the character of Lucy Westenra in Stoker’s gothic …

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How Capitalism Created the Stigma Around Mental Illness

WebFrom the episode: Andrew Keen: I’m particularly interested in this relationship between capitalism and mental health. At the end of the 19th century, of …

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How Adrien Proust—Father of Marcel—Helped Pioneer Global …

WebAdrien had been on the verge of a triumph, finalement, the realization of his plan for a permanent international agency for public health. He had been attending the …

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The Toll of Perfectionism: On the Physical and Mental Health of …

WebThe unending effort to achieve that which cannot be attained damages the mind and spirit. Marc Philippon, a hip surgeon who treats dancers and other elite …

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The Coming-of-Age Tale As Societal Critique: Sylvia Plath’s

WebThese modernist writers left their mark upon The Bell Jar, which, like The Waste Land and Dubliners, contains images of paralysis, decay, death-in-life, and urban …

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The Legal Fight That Ended the Unjust Confinement of Mental …

WebBy Ayelet Waldman. January 21, 2020. In 1975, O’Connor v. Donaldson finally and firmly established the right of people with mental health disabilities to due process protection …

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Barbara Ehrenreich: Why I’m Giving Up on Preventative Care

WebApril 9, 2018. In the last few years I have given up on the many medical measures—cancer screenings, annual exams, Pap smears, for example—expected of a responsible person …

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On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf

WebWoolf was complexly unwell in the autumn of 1925, when T.S. Eliot asked if he might publish a piece of hers in the literary magazine The Criterion, which he had …

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The Psychiatrist Who Tried To Save Sylvia Plath ‹ Literary Hub

WebBy Paul Alexander. October 23, 2018. With the imminent publication of The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 2, there will be considerable discussion about 14 letters written by Plath to …

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