39: Health

Introduction: The Critical Cure

Jillian Sandell, Steven Rubio
Our personal health is crucially connected to our socio-cultural situation.

Chronic Honeymoon Cystitis

Annalee Newitz
About two years ago, I realized that my recurring cystitis really is chronic. It's probably not going to go away.

Open Up and Say Aaaahhhh: Deploying the Metaphor of Political Health

John Brady
It is distressing how little critical reflection takes place at the popular level about the state of American democratic politics.

Dirty Laundry

Steven Rubio
No health care, no joy. No joy, and we're in the underground with Dostoevsky. Our collective laundry is still dirty.

Smells Like a Chlorine Conspiracy

Shih Chang
You don't hear them announcing this on their television commercials, but Brita is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Clorox Company.

The Chinese State and Everyday AIDS Practices in the Borderlands

Sandra Teresa Hyde
Many Chinese view AIDS as not only a foreign disease, but a barbaric one at that.

Ingrate

Jeremy Russell
Ingrate -- workers and their addictions -- a cartoon

Slice, Dice, and Julienne: The Politics of Sterilization

Brock Craft
Vasectomy turned out to have a lot more political, social, and symbolic significance than I had expected.

Elvis Healed?!?! A Report from His Memphis Conference

Mike Mosher
Elvis Presley's evocative recordings and performances are now too often overshadowed by the gross self-parody he became.