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The Other IVF
One in six couples wanting to conceive a child find themselves, after a year or more of trying to get pregnant, unable to do so. The anguish of infertility...
The Rise of the Biomedical Security State
Roger Severino and Aaron Kheriaty sit down for a wide ranging interview about COVID-19, medical ethics, and the future of biomedical technology. This interview discusses, in particular, Dr. Kheriaty’s...
Refounding Social Science
The Quick Fix:Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Illsby jesse singal farrar, strauss and giroux, 352 pages, $28 During the decade following World War II, the Cold War was...
Card-Carrying Precadavers
It has been almost twenty years since I dissected a dead human body. It still seems strange: My first encounter with a human body to learn the art of...
Cyber Self-Harm
On August 2, 2013, fourteen-year-old Hannah Smith of Leicestershire, England, hanged herself and was found dead by her sister. She reportedly had been harassed online for months prior to...
Dying of Despair
On November 4, 2014, sixteen-year-old Cameron Lee, a popular, athletic, straight-A student at Henry M. Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California, leapt in front of a commuter train....
Killer Show
Thirteen Reasons Why begins just after high school sophomore Hannah Baker has killed herself. Over the course of thirteen episodes in Netflix’s controversial new miniseries, Hannah narrates in voiceover...
Apostolate of Death
On November 1, after posting a Facebook message stating, “Today is the day I have chosen to pass away with dignity in the face of my terminal illness, this...
The Era of the Narcissist
Of all the astonishing features of the medieval cathedrals, one feature must stand out as particularly surprising to the modern mind: We have no idea who designed and built...
