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‘The American Nurse’: Five Health Care Workers PopMatters

WebJason Short, a home health nurse in Appalachia, has found in nursing a way through judging himself. As he puts it — and as the film reveals in photos of a longhaired …

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Dr. Golem: How to Think About Medicine by Harry Collins

WebIn Dr. Golem: How To Think About Medicine, their third book in a themed series, authors Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch issue a similar caution using the golem as …

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Better Late Than Never: An Interview with Johnny Mathis

WebToday, I Love My Lady is an album Johnny Mathis is happy to stand up and be counted for, and he’s been an active participant in the creation and promotion of the …

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Losing the Narrative of Your Life: On Alissa Quart's 'Squeezed'

WebAlissa Quart's perspective-driven reporting on the struggles of middle-class working families in 'Squeezed' addresses the results of America's utterly depraved …

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Better by Atul Gawande, MD PopMatters

WebPopMatters Staff. / 4 April 2007. Near the end of Better, Atul Gawande takes us inside a pediatrician’s office. And like the rest of the book, the context is well researched, but it’s …

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Frontline: Sick Around America PopMatters

WebFrontline: Sick Around America. Millions of Americans do not have health coverage, or have inadequate coverage. As our economic challenges multiply, the …

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The 10 Best Films About Aging and the Elderly PopMatters

Web9. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. One of the things we fear about aging is the loss of things: friends, family, connections, memories. So imagine what it …

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Better Living Through Therapy: Six Feet Under’s “The Plan”

WebThe opening shot of “The Plan” is a man packing the trunk of a car in preparation for a trip. A dog barks off screen. The man tells his wife, also off screen, not …

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Chantal Akerman's Saute ma ville and the Art of Social Distancing

WebChantal Akerman’s 1968 short film Saute ma ville directly reflects our current state, serving as a meditative text on the art of staying home. J ane Simon, Professor of …

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AIDS Play ‘The Normal Heart’ Is a Guide During COVID-19 and …

WebThe lessons of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart are as pertinent now, while the world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic and an indifferent presidential …

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Jana Rush: Painful Enlightenment (Album Review)

WebJana Rush. Planet Mu. 13 August 2021. What Painful Enlightenment, the second LP from long-time house DJ and footwork experimentalist Jana Rush has in common with her …

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Kobayashi's The Human Condition Remains Bleak and Unforgettable

WebMasaki Kobayashi's nine-hour epic, 'The Human Condition', is a Sisyphean journey through WWII-era Japan.

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The Ethics of Dr. Gregory House PopMatters

WebThe Ethics of Dr. Gregory House. A friend of mine who works as a nurse once told me that I was insane if I thought House was an ethical person. She has a point. House avoids his …

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Parallels of HIV/AIDS in Tony Kushner’s ‘Angels in

WebThe Y2K anxiety around the turn of the calendar on 31 December 1999 seemed to come to nothing when the sky didn't cave in on 1 January 2000.

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Connie Smith: The Cry of the Heart (Album Review)

WebOn the new album The Cry of the Heart, Smith revisits classic Nashville while showing off an unexpectedly sharp voice with a series of smart and memorable tunes. …

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Eric Holt-Giménez: A FOoodie's Guide to Capitalism interview

WebOctober 2017. When people talk about the food system being “broken”, Eric Holt-Gimenez is quick to correct them. There’s nothing broken about the food system, …

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Changed by Circumstances: An Interview with A.J. Croce

WebA.J. Croce has blazed his own trail from the legacy of his father, Jim Croce, finding new challenges throughout his accomplished career. To say that A.J. Croce …

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‘Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream’

WebAs Alex Gibney’s Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream reveals, these causes don’t include accident or illness or fate, but instead, are the logical …

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Sci-fi/Fantasy Writer Elizabeth Bear on Diversity, Mental Health, …

WebThe timing to the rise of COVID-19 was coincidental — the bulk of the writing was done in 2018-2019, with Bear’s intent being to explore the politics around health …

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