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Articles

On the Shelf

Short reviews of books on the opioid epidemic, the crisis of authority, Silicon Valley, the “new eugenics,” and more

Spring 2017

Toward a More Human Medicine

Spring 2017 • Aaron Rothstein on doctors, parts, and persons

ADD for All

Spring 2017 •

Joseph E. Davis on Big Pharma, overdiagnosis, and the questions unasked about medicalization

The Myth of the Placebo Effect

Winter 2016 • Nick Barrowman on the shaky science underlying a popular idea

Health Food and the Double Helix

The Promise of Nutrigenomics

Summer 2011 • Whitney K. Franz

Mercy and Drugs in Africa

Inside the Bush Administration’s New AIDS Policy

Summer 2003

’Tis the Season?

Women off the Cycle, Men on the Pill

Fall 2003

Click Twice and Call Me in the Morning

Challenging the Orthodoxy of “Green” Science

Winter 2004

‘Higher Standards’

Eliot Spitzer on the Pharmaceutical Industry

Summer 2004

Drug Addiction and the Open Society

Summer 2007 • Lee Harris on freedom and self-mastery