The “death with dignity” movement, for all its well-intentioned and laudable passion, is at once
a logical reaction to and a pathologic extension of what Ivan Illich referred to 50 years ago …

[Danielle Ofri Boston]'s literary pretensions are genuine: her book is eminently readable. The
anecdotes she relates are at times quite moving, at times less so, but all are illuminated by …

On the timely issue of medical mistakes,[Atul Gawande] notes in simple and concise prose
that the" important question isn't how to keep bad physicians from harming patients; it's how to …

" Sure, sure, come on in," groaned and grimaced Mr. Knee.*(* Not his real name.)" I'm having
some awful heartburn or some kind of pain." Oh boy, I thought, it's already complicated." I …

What if Ben-Izmael’s wife wasn’t raped exactly when she said? I have a report that documents
his torture and her rape. The problem is dates. Places, times, float; memory dislocates. …

It cannot have escaped anyone’s notice that the horrific events of Sept. 11, 2001, have been
co-opted by many to foster a number of political, economic and even scientific agendas. A …

For ten days in April, Moscow took cafeteria meals to his room. He studied morning to evening,
slept three hours after supper, and stayed awake all night. His only intermezzo was a trip …

“Anyway, never mind.” Mr. Knee reassured me, and I was grateful.“I guess it’ll get better. What
can I do for you?” So I reiterated for him how things would go, that we’d chat, I’d examine …

Noting that"[good] shrinks are mythologizers," Warme suggests that all" psychiatric residents
should read The Brothers Karamazov" and makes the claim that" the important things about …

My thesis suggests that mastery, which is arguably the telos of the Western world, is a repressive
reaction, the means by which the modern West has deliberately forgotten its subject-ivity…