Articles Tagged with #illness
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Video
On Memory
People diagnosed with Alzheimer’s recount memories they never want to forget.
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Video
After the Singularity, Health Care Only Gets Worse
Plastic people acting like real people is a favorite of ours. As we can see here, Elon Musk has every reason to be worried about the future.
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In Plain Sight
The Last Dying Cat
When the family pet nears the end, of course there is sadness. But there is also every other emotion.
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Dimensions in Medicine
Anything but Nothing
After a lifetime of mental illness, one woman opts to try electroconvulsive therapy. She discusses her decision with her sister.
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Explainers
The Art and Science of Forgetting Everything
A conversation with Sarah Hepola, author of the bestselling Blackout, about investigating the worst kind of memories—those you never had.
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The Unexpected
A Man Enough
Eventually a man who’s always in motion, always fixing something, will stop. Decline of the patriarch reveals an entire family’s vulnerability.
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Surrealpolitik
An Unthinkably Modern Miracle
In today’s health care system, medicine often comes with a strange, Faustian bargain—including a plan for almost everything except the price.
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Personal Essays
White Rabbit
When illness erases the fine line between love and obsession.
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Gallery
The Hunter in His Blind
A project to document Wisconsin’s broad variety of deer stands takes on new meaning after a round of chemotherapy.
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Personal Histories
Our Hallow’s Eve
When dementia gets its grip on a father who always loved slasher movies, a daughter struggles to hold on—if only to the ghost of recognition.
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Gallery
Love in the Kingdom of the Sick
When an artist receives a heart transplant, his drawings of the procedure acquire all the gravity of a fever dream—intensely realistic, with hallucinations of the dead.
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Gallery
Between Falling and Falling
In the instance of slipping, there’s a moment of stillness just before you lose control. Selections from 10 years of a falling man’s self-portraits.