Following Doctors’ Orders Following Doctors’ Orders
It's the largest profession in healthcare. It's the largest female profession in America. But despite its tremendous importance and impact, most people know very little about con...
Feb 14, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Suzanne Gordon
Fusion Biopolitics Fusion Biopolitics
In the next few weeks the Senate will hold hearings and vote on legislation that would outlaw the cloning of human embryos, either for the purpose of medical experimentation or t...
Jan 31, 2002 / Jeremy Rifkin
Victory for Viet Vets Victory for Viet Vets
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Jan 31, 2002 / Peter Montague and Maria B. Pellerano
Rx Needed for Medical Journals Rx Needed for Medical Journals
Drug companies influence research; they also affect what gets published.
Jan 10, 2002 / Feature / Sonia Shah
AIDS: Another World War AIDS: Another World War
The war on terror is threatening to overshadow a far more deadly threat—the AIDS epidemic.
Dec 20, 2001 / Salih Booker
Food Fight Food Fight
Organic farming critic Dennis Avery is supported by generous contributions from several chemical companies, all of whom profit from the sale of products prohibited in organic produ...
Dec 20, 2001 / Feature / Mark Dowie
No Last Rights No Last Rights
Attorney General John Ashcroft throws out Oregon's assisted suicide law, against the wishes of a majority of Oregonians and in defiance of a 1997 Supreme Court ruling.
Nov 21, 2001 / David Sarasohn
Big Pharma’s Payoff Big Pharma’s Payoff
Talk about good times for Washington's mercenary culture. Even as officials scrambled to explain why they had not acted more quickly to protect postal workers from anthrax contami...
Oct 25, 2001 / The Editors
You Can Use God to Justify Anything You Can Use God to Justify Anything
The country was founded on the idea of keeping religion and politics separate--but you'd hardly know this by the way the idea of the Almighty has intruded itself into political...
Aug 21, 2001 / Column / Robert Scheer
Baby, It’s Cold Inside! Baby, It’s Cold Inside!
Should the question of personhood at the embryo stage really be decided by politicians?
Aug 9, 2001 / Column / Katha Pollitt