Thinking About Health, Pt. 1

Hmm, what does health mean? Wild, far-ranging, browsing, with few answers, but lots of questions. Good health tips, dangers to our health, healthy perspectives and destructive attitudes, the health industry and governmental policies, alternative health care and mental illness/distress...

Abby, Christopher. “States of Denial: A rape, a visit to the ER, a request for emergency contraception, a refusal on religious grounds. Welcome to the new front in the battle for reproductive rights, where state law says it's okay to deny prescriptions.” Alternet (August 18, 2004)

Angell, Marcia. “The $200 Billion Colossus.” Alternet (August 13, 2004)

Body Positive (Website that deals with issues surrounding body image and health)

Bono. “The Biggest News Around.” Alternet (July 27, 2004; originally published in the Boston Globe)

Breast Cancer Fund (Group that informs about, and funds fight against, breast cancer)

Cannon, Michael F. and Marie Gryphon. “Schools Shouldn’t Play Doctor.” Cato Institute (July 14, 2004)

“Companies With Highest Levels Of Employee Injury and Illness.” The Memory Hole (compilation of sources/reports: August 2004)

Dawdy, Philip. “Mental Marijuana.” Seattle Weekly (August 18-24)

Downey, Roger. “This is Your Brain on a Frappuccino.” Seattle Weekly (August 18-24, 2004)

“Fear of a Crimson Planet: Information on Radical Menstruation.” Cultural Revitalization Project (Hosted by Campus Activism: 2004)

Gonzalez, Juan, Peter Bach and Winston Price. “Study Shows Racial Disparity in Healthcare.” Democracy Now (August 20, 2004)

Hearn, Kelly. “The Drug Profiteers.” Alternet (August 13, 2004)

Hester, J. David. “Rhetoric of the Medical Management of the Intersexed Child.” Genders #38 (2003)

Igrejas, Andy. “Counting Chemicals in Your Cabinet.” Alternet (August 16, 2004)

Kelliher, Laurie. “A Meat Story Well Done: How the Omaha World-Herald Inspected a Tough Local Industry.” Columbia Journalism Review (January/February, 2004)

Kerbaj, Richard. “Therapy the New Religion.” The Age (June 25, 2004): online at

Kuttner, Robert. “Wrong Cure: Only in a country so beholden to the drug industry could reimportation seem like a good solution.” The American Prospect (August 23, 2004)

Landis, Bill. “Go E-Mail the Doctor: Online Pharmacies Offer Relief to the Uninsured, Vulnerable, and Desperate.” Village Voice (October 15-21, 2003)

Lindquist, Susan. “Are We as Crazy as Mad Cows?” MIT World (March 29, 2004)

Manning, Richard. “The Oil We Eat.” Harper’s (February 2004)

McNally, Terence. “Voices of the Invisible People.” Alternet (August 16, 2004)

Pinkerton, James. “As the AIDs Bureaucracy Cashes In, the Prospect of a Cure Dims.” Los Angeles Times (August 6, 2004: reposted at New America Foundation)

Pyne, Solana. “One Sick Fall: With Health Insurance Out of Reach, A Generation Braces for the Worst.” The Village Voice (July 13, 2004)

Rajiva, Lila. “Synthetic Science.” Alternet (February 24, 2004)

“Report: Prozac Found in Britain’s Drinking Water.” Yahoo! News (August 8, 2004)

Roan, Sheri. “More Choice, At a Cost.” L.A. Times (August 16, 2004)

Sabhlok, Sukrit. “Lest We Create a Generation of Slouchers.” Vibewire (August 6, 2004)

Scherer, Michael. “Meatpacking Maverick.” Mother Jones (November/December 2003)

---. “Where’s the Beef From?” Mother Jones (January 7, 2004)

Walker, Childs. “In the Fight of Their Lives: Several current and former firefighters who trained at a Millersville facility in the '70s and '80s believe the cause of their cancer lies in chemicals used there.” Baltimore Sun (August 1, 2004)