Adhering too strictly to biomedical thinking about diagnosis can prevent clinicians from empathically engaging with patients and helping them navigate their illness experiences.

Undocumented people in the US face legal and structural barriers to health care services, including for kidney failure.

Cervical cancer has become rare in high-income countries but is a leading cause of mortality among women in low- and middle-income countries. This inequity is an epidemiological tragedy.

To achieve health equity, governments can use a variety of tools, including civil rights legislation and constitutional jurisprudence.

Pharmaceuticals make symptoms and biological drug targets more visible but can render individual and community suffering less visible.

This pen and ink drawing reimagines a white coat in the context of medicine’s realistic, not idealized, dynamism.

Social work perspectives on whether prescribers should authorize opioid refills emphasize the importance of multidisciplinary approaches to patient self-determination.

The health status of the US population remains poor when compared to that of similar nations. There are lessons for us from Cuba.

Neurobiological markers raise complex questions about what it means to be “at risk.”

Introduction to the March 2018 issue on global reproductive health care ethics in the 21st century.