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Britain’s Forgotten Pandemic: What We Failed to Learn from the Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease

Britain’s Forgotten Pandemic: What We Failed to Learn from the Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease

Scott Preston on How Botched Policy Responses Disease Led to Political Extremism

By Scott Preston | June 10, 2024

What Illness Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About Ourselves

What Illness Can—and Cannot—Tell Us About Ourselves

Graham Caveney on Cancer, the Body and the Philosophy of Mortality

By Graham Caveney | May 30, 2024

From Austen to Larkin: Why Writers Could Be More Prone to Hypochondria

From Austen to Larkin: Why Writers Could Be More Prone to Hypochondria

Caroline Crampton Considers the Intersection of Creative Pursuits and Health Anxiety

By Caroline Crampton | April 26, 2024

When Writing Your Novel (Maybe) Manifests Your Breakup

When Writing Your Novel (Maybe) Manifests Your Breakup

Hazel Hayes on Seeing Her Characters’ Relationship Problems Mirror Her Own

By Hazel Hayes | April 24, 2024

Seizures, Strokes, and... Spurts of Creativity? On the Symptoms of a Brain Tumor

Seizures, Strokes, and... Spurts of Creativity? On the Symptoms of a Brain Tumor

Rod Nordland Considers the Enduring Mysteries of Cancer's Effects on the Human Body

By Rod Nordland | April 1, 2024

On Publishing My Memoir of Grief As My Father Lays Dying

On Publishing My Memoir of Grief As My Father Lays Dying

Kristine S. Ervin: “I need to be that daughter again, who can cry into the chest of my father.”

By Kristine S. Ervin | March 27, 2024

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Alexandra Tanner on Vulnerability, Making Money as a Writer, and Taking Literary Shortcuts

By Sasha Fletcher | March 27, 2024

More (And More) Meat: How Doctors Treated Diabetes Before Insulin Therapy

By Gary Taubes | January 26, 2024

Memories Aren’t Enough: Why Sometimes Only Fiction Can Solve the Mysteries of Life

By Emily Schultz | January 3, 2024

Bedridden Listening: Sarah Wheeler on the Transformative Experience of Listening to Audiobooks While Ill

Bedridden Listening: Sarah Wheeler on the Transformative Experience of Listening to Audiobooks While Ill

The Co-Host of Mother Culture on Becoming a Different Kind of Reader

By Sarah Wheeler | December 18, 2023

Meals and Memories: Sheila Squillante on Writing to Remember Her Father

Meals and Memories: Sheila Squillante on Writing to Remember Her Father

"I write because I want to continue my father, not contain him."

By Sheila Squillante | November 29, 2023

Where There Is No Doctor: On Navigating Motherhood and Illness

Where There Is No Doctor: On Navigating Motherhood and Illness

Diksha Basu Considers Vulnerability and Self-Diagnosis in the Age of WebMD

By Diksha Basu | October 18, 2023

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

Alexandra Dos Santos on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House

By Alexandra Dos Santos | October 11, 2023

My Mother's Clocks: On Losing Time with Dementia

My Mother's Clocks: On Losing Time with Dementia

Jennifer C. Nash on Remembering Someone Who Can No Longer Consistently Remember You

By Jennifer C. Nash | August 14, 2023

How Chaos Theory Can Revitalize—and Save—Modern Medicine

How Chaos Theory Can Revitalize—and Save—Modern Medicine

Jennifer Lunden on Alice James, Descartes' Destructive Influence on Medicine, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and More

By Jennifer Lunden | May 10, 2023

“A Bright Stellate Object, a Small Angled Sphere.” On Migraines and Scotoma

“A Bright Stellate Object, a Small Angled Sphere.” On Migraines and Scotoma

Brian Dillon Considers the Restless Geometry of Blind Spots

By Brian Dillon | April 25, 2023

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