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Essays and ideas exploring health, illness, wellbeing, medicine, vulnerability, and what it means to live well in an imperfect body.

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Being mortal

Zan Boag: What responsibility does a society have for the health of its individuals? Where do individual responsibility and societal responsibility begin and end? Hilde Lindemann:…

Learning not to die

It probably says something telling about human beings that the oldest surviving piece of literature is about our longing to overcome death. The Sumerian poetry cycle…

Showing off that shiny red rump

I despise gyms. I honestly couldn’t tell you if it is the nauseating funk emanating from dozens of perspiring bodies therein or the mind-numbing beats designed…

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