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Lorenzo Servitje

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Associate Professor of Literature and Medicine, Lehigh Universit

Associate Professor of Literature and Medicine, Lehigh Universit

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Suspended Ethics?

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The Persecution of Heretics

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Parashkev Nachev

A.I. and the Medicine of the Future

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How Illness Transforms Philosophy

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You are not an exception

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Jon Jureidini, Leemon McHenry

An Enemy of The Open Society

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How modern medicine became dangerous

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Peter Stilwell, Sabrina Coninx

A new paradigm to understand pain

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We risk turning life into an illness

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The mind-body problem is ruining our health

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Breaking the silence on illness

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The risks of erasing our desire with Ozempic

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Trisha Greenhalgh

Medical trials are not the whole truth

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New theory of placebos reframes mind-body problem

Sabrina Coninx, Peter Stilwell

Pain destroys the mind-body problem

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H. Gilbert Welch

We are overcounting cancer cases by vast amounts

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H. Gilbert Welch

Cancer screening harms more people than it saves

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H. Gilbert Welch

False positives, real profits: the dark side of cancer screening

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Nicholas Maxwell

The Uniqueness of Humanity

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Matt Jameson Evans

DIY DNA

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Nicholas Humphrey

Entering the Soul Niche

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Rupert Sheldrake

A New Science of Life

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The Emperor's New Genes

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Rita Levi Montalcini: the Nobel Prize-winning scientist with a lab in her bedroom

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Parenting myths and the DNA revolution

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John Parrington

CRISPR's Brave New World

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Natasha Vita-More

The ethical transhumanist

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Mark Alan Walker

The rise of God-like beings

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Andrew Reynolds

Science is based in metaphor

A colorful, abstract representation of DNA strands intertwined with geometric shapes and glowing particles, evoking themes of genetics and technology.

The gene illusion