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Health & Medicine

By Matthew Loftus

How to Think About Using Government Funds for Christian Charity

March 4th, 2025|10 min read

By Daniel Hindman

An Epitaph for John Henry

February 10th, 2025|6 min read

By Brewer Eberly

Unsouling the Patient: Notre Dame's Lessons for Medicine

February 4th, 2025|9 min read

By Samuel C Heard

Best of 2024: The Rise of Hyperpleasures

December 27th, 2024|11 min read

By Seth Troutt

Queer Theory as Actualized Cartesianism

July 29th, 2024|5 min read

By Warren Kinghorn

Against the Moral / Medical Divide

July 11th, 2024|6 min read

By Samuel C Heard

The Rise of Hyperpleasures

June 5th, 2024|10 min read

By Andy Hood

The Distortion of Vulnerability

May 10th, 2024|4 min read

By Matthew Arbo

We Would Rather Be Ruined Than Changed: Anxiety as a Moral Concept

April 16th, 2024|14 min read

By Jake Meador

The End of Choice

April 8th, 2024|13 min read

By Brewer Eberly

Heads in the Heavens (or in Hell)

April 5th, 2024|22 min read

By Brewer Eberly and Ben Frush

Teach Us to Number Our Days: Health Anxiety and Faithful Anticipation

March 18th, 2024|25 min read

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By Phil Cotnoir

The Coming Psychedelic Moment

December 1st, 2023|17 min read

By Matthew Loftus

The Right Thing Has a Real Cost: Abortion Politics and Social Welfare

May 16th, 2022|7 min read

By Matthew Loftus

“legalizing marijuana won’t solve those disparities”

January 9th, 2019|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

what role do traditional healers have in a modern healthcare system?

January 3rd, 2019|2 min read

By Matthew Loftus

more on teaching professionalism to medical students

December 18th, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

preventing suicide with text messages

December 6th, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

“The FDA’s Mango-Flavored Trolley Problem”

November 16th, 2018|1 min read

By Matthew Loftus

even surgeons agree: we hate EMRs!

November 13th, 2018|1 min read