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Marcia Angell is a member of the faculty of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a former Editor in Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. (December 2018)
Opioid Nation
I believe the modern opioid epidemic is now more a demand problem than a supply problem.
Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America’s Opioid Epidemic (Expanded and Updated Edition)
by Barry Meier
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
by Beth Macy
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
by Chris McGreal
American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis—and How to End It
by Ryan Hampton, with Claire Rudy Foster
December 6, 2018 issue
The Abortion Battlefield
Two new books tell the story of the moral and political battles over Roe v. Wade.
Women Against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century
by Karissa Haugeberg
About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America
by Carol Sanger
June 22, 2017 issue
Why Be a Parent?
Alison Gopnik’s ‘The Gardener and the Carpenter’
The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children
by Alison Gopnik
November 10, 2016 issue
Medical Research on Humans: Making It Ethical
The Nuremberg Code
issued by the Nuremberg tribunal in 1947
The Declaration of Helsinki
issued by the World Medical Association in 1964 and revised most recently in 2013
The Common Rule (Title 45, Part 46, Subpart A, Code of Federal Regulations)
issued by the US Department of Health and Human Services in 1991
The Ethics Police? The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe
by Robert L. Klitzman
December 3, 2015 issue
Medical Victims
Was the issuance of the Nuremberg Code the end of unethical medical research? Not at all.
The Nuremberg Code
issued by the Nuremberg tribunal in 1947
The Declaration of Helsinki
issued by the World Medical Association in 1964 and revised most recently in 2013
The Ethics Police? The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe
by Robert L. Klitzman
November 19, 2015 issue
Right Diagnosis, Wrong Treatment
‘America’s Bitter Pill’ by Steven Brill
America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Fight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System
by Steven Brill
April 23, 2015 issue
A Better Way Out
Atul Gawande’s ‘Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End’
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
January 8, 2015 issue
The Women at the Top
The rise of upper-middle-class working women, and its implications
The XX Factor: How the Rise of Working Women Has Created a Far Less Equal World
by Alison Wolf
March 20, 2014 issue
What Is a Good Life?
Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
by George E. Vaillant
May 9, 2013 issue
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