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