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Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages

At Gateshead, along the A1 south of Newcastle, a 20-meter-high colossus stares out over the landscape. While some passersby have referred to it as the “Gateshead Flasher,” for its outstretched arms...

Joseph Taylor | 13 Dec 2022

Spirituality and Psychiatry

What is spirituality, and what does it have to do with psychiatry? These are good questions but not easily answered; they evoke a lot of debate. Some people think that spirituality is indefinable. Some...

Christopher C. H. Cook | 13 Dec 2022

The Justice that Rolls Down like Waters

Art by Ramūnas Čeponis (Ramunas Ceponis).

Ligita Ryliškytė | 13 Dec 2022

Re-assessing magic in premodern England

…when we be in trouble, or sickness, or lose any thing, we run hither and thither to wyssardes, or sorcerers, whom we call wise men; when there is no man foolish and blind as they be: for the devil...

Tabitha Stanmore | 12 Dec 2022

Why a Textbook on Health Systems?

The importance of health systems has been reinforced by the commitment from Low- and Middle-Income Countries (L&MICs) to pursue the target of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), health security, and...

Sameen Siddiqi, Awad Mataria, Katherine D. Rouleau, Meesha Iqbal | 12 Dec 2022

Long COVID as a Case Study for Race/Disability Intersectionality

Chimére Smith is one of tens of millions of Americans with symptoms of long COVID. According to an August 2022 NBC News story, the 40-year-old Black woman from Baltimore was experiencing extreme fatigue,...

Mary Crossley | 12 Dec 2022

The new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is only modestly effective: What else can we do now?

The media have been busy in discussion with the results of a large clinical trial that is a new monoclonal antibody therapy, designed to treat patients with the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease....

Robert Friedland | 9 Dec 2022

Making monetary redress work

There are hundreds of thousands of survivors of abuse in care around the world. Many survivors experienced grievous physical, emotional, or sexual abuse or severe neglect while in out-of-home care. Their...

Stephen Winter | 8 Dec 2022

A New History of the United States since 1945

Do we really need another post-1945 history of the United States? That was what I asked myself when a senior editor at Cambridge University Press approached me about writing Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord:...

Salim Yaqub | 8 Dec 2022

Thinking about Muslim Sects and Schools

The Muslim community, known as the umma, is meant to be united. The Qur’an, in chapter 29, verse 92, states that “Indeed, this your umma is one umma, and I am your Lord; so worship Me.” Yet Muslims,...

Adam R. Gaiser | 6 Dec 2022

Independence and Its Affective Shockwaves

Between 1800 and 1870, much of Latin America transformed itself from a colonial possession of an embattled European empire to a collection of independent states on the political and economic vanguard...

Ana Peluffo, Ronald Briggs | 6 Dec 2022

The mean side of the force : How regression to the mean can fool us

Regression to the mean Regression to the mean is a powerful and common source of bias in interpreting data. Once understood, its potential to mislead is obvious. Yet many scientists are regularly...

Stephen Senn | 5 Dec 2022