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Modern biomedicine is rife with dilemma. Constructing disease diagnoses may allow doctors and patients to feel that they have control over certain conditions, or it may distort suffering for the sake of adhering to narrow biomedical theories. Cells and DNA, hormones, lesions and blood counts are agents of the biomedical diagnosis that often explain a condition as if it were analyzed outside of the patient's body—like a weed that can be uprooted before it begins to smother the flowers. Yet illnes… Continue

I've always felt a particularly stinging sadness surrounding the topic of miscarriage. Since reading the NYT article “A Planet of Pain, Where No Words Are Quite Right,” I’ve begun to question the way our society handles death, particularly the death of a woman’s unborn child.

In this op-ed piece, N. West Moss describes friends and physicians who treated her miscarriage as if it were merely a bump in the road toward her nex… Continue