Health - Quillette (Page 10)

Preventable Deaths and the Need for Data-Driven Journalism

My primary goal—and Dr. Tyson’s if I read his tweet correctly—is to provide context. It is perhaps inevitable that our biases will continue to inform the responses of the general public on social media.

Evan Balkcom

29 Aug 2019 · 6 min read

I’m a Feminist Mother. But I Don’t Need a ‘Feminist Birth’

A birth away from hospital can be seen as a feminist act of resistance. But it’s not a form of resistance I want to join.

Amy Eileen Hamm

20 Aug 2019 · 11 min read

Rationalizing Modern Drug Prejudices

Value judgments seem inevitable in trying to establish the relative comparisons between drugs, and any attempt to compare apples and oranges will inevitably fall short of the scientist’s objective goals.

Matthew Blackwell

12 Aug 2019 · 14 min read

The Rise of ‘Drag Kids’—and the Death of Gay Culture

There was—and will always be—promiscuity, homosexuality, prostitution, fetish culture and adultery—because sex is human.

Sky Gilbert

10 Aug 2019 · 13 min read

Choosing a Good Death

There are many false hopes out there that claim to be treatments and cures.

Mark Taubert

28 Jul 2019 · 7 min read

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of....What Exactly?

The same is true of happiness and positivity. They’re not mere feelings. They are behaviors.

Steve Salerno

24 Jul 2019 · 15 min read

Coming Together to Honor a Dead Rock Star—And Ward Off Our Own Demons

In the months leading up to the news, I was in a bad place. Nothing in life felt right, and every day was a fight against hopelessness—to the point that even when good things happened, I would remain afraid or numb.

Neil Gray

21 Jul 2019 · 8 min read

The Real Gender Gap in Heart Disease

Men have been dying at higher rates than women over time, and the gap appears to be constant.

Anish Koka

12 Jun 2019 · 9 min read

How ‘Limbic Capitalism’ Preys on Our Addicted Brains

The more rapid and intense the brain reward they imparted, the likelier they were to foster pathological learning and craving, particularly among socially and genetically vulnerable consumers.

David Courtwright

31 May 2019 · 11 min read

A Contrarian View of Digital Health

Sending millions more people to clinicians, creating a society even more fearful of lurking diseases, and systematically robbing people of the normal arc of life and death–this, I am afraid, is where the digital health expansion is heading.

John Mandrola

17 May 2019 · 6 min read

The Sad Truth About ‘Fat Acceptance’

Unfortunately for some activists, gravity wasn’t invented by white settlers.

Anna Slatz

26 Apr 2019 · 9 min read

How I Lost My Partner to a Parasite

"This monster isn’t David. It’s a parasite of some kind. You see, another consciousness inside him. This thing burrowed into David’s brain … and has been there, feeding off him ever since." - Loudermilk, FX Legion.

Maryam Henein

15 Apr 2019 · 13 min read

On the Eve of the Great Psychedelic Debate

The mint plant salvia divinorum exhibits powerful and unusual psychedelic effects and remains legal.

Matthew Blackwell

30 Mar 2019 · 21 min read

Women Needed a Magazine that Doesn't Lie to Them. So I Started One

Women’s publications have tried to convince women they can be just like men, instead of celebrating femininity and what makes women wonderfully unique.

Brittany Martinez

20 Feb 2019 · 6 min read

Glimpsing Our Own Health Secrets: The Coming Revolution in Health-Care Transparency

Does more transparency mean that patients will become responsible for catching errors that doctors themselves should have prevented?

Amitha Kalaichandran

4 Jan 2019 · 7 min read