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What Makes An Illness Real?
Making the right diagnosis is the most important task that doctors must perform. When a patient presents with cough, fever, and chest pain, for instance, there are a range of diseases that can be the cause, ranging from things that go away on their own, like the common cold and viral bronchitis, to life-threatening […]
Precision Psychiatry
There’s a new buzzword in the field of mental health: “precision psychiatry.” The idea comes from the broader field of precision medicine, in which patients are matched to treatments based on personal genetic and other relevant characteristics. More recently, those in the field of mental health have been wondering what this concept might look like when […]
Call to Action: Depicting Safer Sex in Fiction to Influence Public Health Behavior
Editor’s Note: We were struck by these thoughts from Phyllis Zimbler Miller when she told us about them and asked her to write them down for Critica. The use of automobile seat belts is an unequivocal public health success and has, as Ms. Miller explains, been embraced by the entertainment industry. We know that safer […]