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By Charles Binkley, co-author of Encoding Bioethics: AI in Clinical Decision-MakingArtificial Intelligence (AI) is being introduced into every sector of the human experience, and healthcare is no exception.AI models were first used in radiology in the 1980s to aid radiologists in interpretin

By Tyler Loftus, co-author of Encoding Bioethics: AI in Clinical Decision-MakingEncoding Bioethics begins where all good healthcare stories begin: in the trenches of patient care. We have many professional roles in healthcare, but above all, we are surgeons. Providing the best patient care possi

What is it like to publish a book open-access with our Luminos program? Adrienne Strong, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida and author of Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania, discusses her award-winning book and her experience publis

Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures for their children. These migrant mothers enact imperative resilience, en

For the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, we reached out to scholar Adria Imada to discuss her new book, An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making during Medical Incarceration.Adria L. Imada is Professor of History at University of California, Irvine,

Anirudh KrishnaAnirudh Krishna’s essay “The Poorest After the Pandemic” is featured in Current History’s November special issue on the pandemic’s global ramifications. Krishna is the Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at Duke University. His research investigates

By Adia Harvey Wingfield, author of Flatlining: Race, Work, and Health Care in the New EconomyAt this point, it is safe to say that the coronavirus has laid bare foundational inequalities in American life--in access to education, work, housing, and perhaps most visibly, health and health car

Excerpted from Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America by Rebecca J. LesterI came dangerously close to dying from anorexia twice, once when I was eleven years old and again when I was eighteen. I was hospitalized both times for several months and spent years in outpatient t