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<p>2005 fellow Gerri Shaftel produced this report on one family in Stevenson Ranch who shared their experience of having a child with mental illness.</p>
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This post discusses Richard Kluger's magisterial history of the tobacco industry in America, Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, an the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris.
This post talks about photographer David Handschuh's courageous response to being seriously injured during the September 11 terrorist attacks.
<p>This post describes the Dart Society reunion I attended last month. Named after eminent psychiatrist Dr. Frank Ochberg, he fellows supports journalists who cover issues of trauma and violence to help them both tells stories about those issues with sensitivity and compassion and to deal with the emotional consequences of doing that work.</p>
<p>This post discusses physician Eric Goosby's book about living with the HIV virus.</p>
<p>This post discusses Jacob Levenson's book, The Secret Epidemic: The Story of AIDS and Black America.</p>
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.
