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Commodification of the body | Economic Sociology (pdf)
The great difference between blood or organ donation and gamete donation is the fact that reproductive cells are linked to the sexuality of donors and recipients. The symbolic value of reproductive cells isn’t exactly the same for a kidney. Oocytes donati
Toward a Global View of Alcohol, Tobacco, Cannabis, and Cocaine Use: Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys | PLoS Medicine
severity of drug laws around the world have virtually no relation to the drug use of the population
Stories of Silence | ABC Radio National
The series Stories of silence examines the idea of silence as a presence loaded with meaning, rather than as an absence of sound. It listens for the stories a young woman communicates without speech (El's story)and the peace that a composer creates throug
Mothers who die | New Internationalist
Why are so many women still dying in childbirth? Because nobody gives a fuck.
A Comparison of the Cost-effectiveness of the Prohibition and Regulation of Drugs
report: http://www.tdpf.org.uk/TransformCBApaper.pdf
The Right Wing's Latest Argument Against Public Health Care -- We'd Like It Too Much | AlterNet
Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies (PDF)
by Gregory S. Paul, Journal of Religion & Society (2005)
Oliver Sacks: A Summer of Madness - The New York Review of Books
Hurry Down Sunshine
by Michael Greenberg
Other Press, 234 pp.,
Excluding the poor from accessing biomedical literature: A rights violation that impedes global health
Gavin Yamey, Health and Human Rights, 19 (2008)
Financial bubbles are like epidemics— and we should treat them both the same way
Robert J. Shiller is a professor of economics at Yale University. This article is drawn from his forthcoming book, The Subprime Solution, to be published in August by Princeton University Press.
Bonkers Institute: Medicine Show
a gallery of vintage drug adverts, showcasing some of the more outlandish psychiatric advertising from the 20th century. (via Mind Hacks)
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