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This post discusses Anne Fadiman's award-winning book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. The book talks about the medical experiences of Lia Lee, a young Hmong girl who is diagnosed early in her life as having medical seizures.
This post discusses the film Revolutionary Road and Allan Brandt's book, The Cigarette Century.
This post discusses the life story of Dr. Leon Bass, a black veteran and educator whose wife died of Alzheimer's disease, and two other books related to the topic.
This post discusses David Sklar's memoir about his mid-life search for meaning and return to a village in rural Mexico where he had learned to become a doctor decades earlier.
This story talks about how agencies working on HIV and AIDS prevention efforts in Chicago have to rely on dated records on the disease's prevalence while the Chicago Department of Public Health labors to release the latest epidemiological data.
<p>Thousands of immigrants who have lost their jobs are suffering all kind of mental disorders and they are not receiving any mental health care.</p>
<p>In California, food-makers and restaurants are battling backers of a tax on sugary drinks and junk food that could help decrease obesity.</p> <p> </p>
This is a remarkable story of healing and renewal. In 1997, photographer John Trotter was taking pictures in a Sacramento neighborhood when he was viciously assaulted and nearly killed by half a dozen young men. He recovered in Sierra Gates and later returned to the facility to learn anew how to take pictures.
This post discusses Dave Cullen's book about the 1999 Columbine massacre. Cullen argues that Eric Harris was a psychopath and Dylan Klebold was depressed and suicidal.
