Medical ethics
A Number
Kids are prone to asking questions, like “where did I come from?” These become harder to answer when you’ve cloned your son, but no one’s really sure how many of them were made. In Caryl Churchill’s new play, A Number, there are no white coats or labs, just Sam Shepard playing the father, and a […]
New report urges doctors to test and alert patients to genetic conditions
The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics is asking doctors to test and alert patients of genetic conditions regardless of their desire to know the information. But are doctors and patients equipped to explain and understand this kind of information?
Defining Normal After a Diagnosis of Schizophrenia
This week, the American Psychiatric Association unveils the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the so-called bible of mental illness. The bible has changed with our society’s understanding of mental illness and health; and it’s changed along with what we’ve all come to understand as quote unquote, normal. But beyond the big, controversial […]
America’s Relationship with Marijuana
America has a love-hate relationship with marijuana. Millions of people use the drug but it remains mostly illegal. A journalist and self-professed marijuana enthusiast explores the country’s dysfunctional relationship with cannabis and his own experience with the drug in a new book, “Marijuanamerica.” Part travelogue, part analysis, author Alfred Ryan Nerz goes inside a […]
