Health and medicine is more than just biological—societal forces can get under your skin and cause illness. Medical sociologists like me study these forces by treating society itself as our laboratory ...

If you live with chronic illness, it’s likely that you’ve experienced health anxiety. It’s a normal response to illness to fear disease progression or recurrence. Will our medications continue working ...

Mental health, mental illness, and mental performance are distinct concepts that impact the way we think, feel, and behave. They may be correlated to each other, but not always. Understanding and ...

Reflections by late-Roman Stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca, offer a remarkably contemporary lens on illness, medicine, and healthcare.