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How Culture Shapes Madness, my latest at Pacific Standard

Posted on October 3, 2017 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

“The Touch of Madness,” published online today in Pacific Standard magazine, is probably the most important article I’ve ever written. In the ...

Culture/Healthcare policy/Medicine/Photography/Readings

The best healthcare system in the world.

Posted on September 24, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

It is 5:30 a.m. on Saturday—the second day of the Wise County RAM clinic—when Brock begins allowing people into the clinic’s makeshift tents. Hundreds of people...

Biotech/Brains and Behavior/Medicine/Readings

Read two* of these and call. Wed Jul 2 2014 edition

Posted on July 2, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Rose Eveleth on a long string of virtual visits to the real town that shares her name In what was once a lively town, the mining industry collapsed, the populat...

Medicine/Readings

A Eulogy to Britain’s Finest Hour

Posted on June 5, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Harry Leslie Smith, who lost a sister to a world without public health care and then saw the National Health Service arise in the wake of World War II, laments ...

Brains and Behavior/Culture/Healthcare policy/Medicine/Readings/Writing

Can A Pilot Save Medicine From Its Fatal Mistakes? He Can Try

Posted on June 5, 2014 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

Fabulous story from Ian Leslie: Martin Bromiley is a modest man with an immodest ambition: to change the way medicine is practised in the UK. I first met him in...

Education/Medicine

Does Grouping Students By Ability Work? Be Nice To Know.

Posted on June 11, 2013 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

From Today’s Times: Grouping Students by Ability Regains Favor With Educators: Though the issue is one of the most frequently studied by education scholar...

Medicine/Uncategorized

Neurocritic Asks, Where Are Psychiatry’s Clinical Tests?

Posted on August 13, 2012 by David Dobbs / 4 Comments

In an age of laboratory medicine, psychiatry’s reliance on interviews, confession, and often funky diagnoses remain the disciplines great bugbear. The mov...

Medicine/Uncategorized

“Medicine is Broken”: Ben Goldacre’s Bad Pharma

Posted on August 10, 2012 by David Dobbs / 1 Comment

  From the muckraker troublemaker Dr. Ben Goldacre, of Bad Science fame: Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it’s based on evidence and the results...

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What An Autopsy Looks Like — And Why You Need One

Posted on February 6, 2012 by David Dobbs / 33 Comments

Autopsies are crucial for doctor training, progress in medical research and closure for families -- and yet the events are on the decline. Neuron Culture blogge...

Medicine/Uncategorized

When Science Meets a Great Writer: Silberman Speaks

Posted on May 17, 2011 by David Dobbs / 0 Comment

If you care about how science writers collide with science to produce science writing — and if you’re reading anything at Wired Science, you do care, whet...

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, Write My Essays, National Geographic, EssayTigers, Aeon, Slate, EvolutionWriters, Chegg, Write My Paper and other companies and publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, which tells the long-hidden story of my mother's secret WWII affair with a flight surgeon. MML became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single and was chosen in 2014 by readers as their favorite Atavist publication.

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