50 Great Articles and Essays about Health and Medicine
The best writing about staying healthy, medicine and disease -- examples of short articles and essays on healthViruses and Disease
The Message of Measles by Nick Paumgarten
An Epidemic of
Fear by Amy Wallace
Out of the wild by
David Quammen
How Plagues Really Work by Wendy Orent
Stopping
A Global Killer by
Michael Finkel
The
Origin of Aids by Tom
Curtis
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viruses and disease
viruses and disease
Covid
The Plague Year by Lawrence Wright
Race to the Vaccine by David Heath and Gus Garcia-Roberts
Since I Became Symptomatic by Leslie Jamison
Insane After Coronavirus? by Patricia Lockwood
Medical Science
Can Big Data Tell Us What Clinical Trials Don’t? by Veronique Greenwood
It'll Take an Army to Kill the Emperor by Jacqueline Detwiler
The Power of Nothing by Michael Specter
Patient Zero by Tom Junod
and
Mark
Warren
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medical science
The Medical Industry
Dirty Medicine by Mariah Blake
When Evidence Says No, but Doctors Say Yes by David Epstein
“Reverse Innovation” Could Save Lives. Why Aren’t We Embracing It? by Tom Vanderbilt
Piecework by Atul Gawande
Cost of Living by Emily Maloney
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the medical industry
Mental Health
The Epidemic of Mental Illness by Marcia Angell
The Illusions of Psychiatry by Marcia Angell
Adventures in Depression by Allie Brosh
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Sleep
Insomnia by Elizabeth Gumport
The End of Night by Rebecca Boyle
Bed Habits by Rachel Handler
Snooze or Lose by Po Bronson
10 more great articles about sleep
Abortion
Somewhere Worse by Jia Tolentino
“Whatever’s Your Darkest Question, You Can Ask Me.” by Lizzie Presser
The Dawn of the Post-Clinic Abortion
by Emily Bazelon
10 more great articles about abortion
Reproductive Health
The
Age of Mechanical Reproduction
by Paul Ford
The Score by Atul Gawande
Safe-Sex Lies by Meghan Daum
John Rock's Error by Malcolm Gladwell
The Sanitary Pad
Revolutionary
by Vibeke Venema
15 more great articles about
reproductive health
Public Health
What's Killing America's Black Infants? by Zoe Carpenter
The Plastic Panic by Jerome Groopman
A Bug in the System by Wil S. Hylton
Misc.
Does Our Immune System Hold the Key to Beating Alzheimer’s? by Philip Ball
I Called it Telekinesis by Jenny Kleeman
How Fit Can You Get From Just Walking? by Graham Isador
The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene by David Epstein
When Evidence Says No, but Doctors Say Yes by David Epstein
Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? by Rowan Jacobsen
The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison
Poor Teeth by Sarah Smarsh
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