Weekly Digest #97

Something for the weekend:

1. Unresponsive Brain-Damaged Patients May Have Some Awareness

2. Fredric Jameson at ninety

3. Disability Dialogues: Advocacy, Science, and Prestige in Postwar Clinical Professions

4. A site to go to when you think things are getting worse

5. The Rapidly Declining Fertility Rate Of India (2001 vs 2021)

6. On the Dark History and Ongoing Ableist Legacy of the IQ Test

7. “What Is Racism?” a talk by Kwame Anthony Appiah

8. Impairment Arguments, Interests, and Circularity

9. The staggering death toll of scientific lies: Scientific fraud kills people. Should it be illegal?

10. The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America

11. The Cult of Wellness

12. Street anatomy

13. Disability and Achievement: A Reply to Campbell, Nyholm, and Walter

14. Critique and the Care of the Self: The Economy of Truth and Government in Michel Foucault's Late Work

15. In Pursuit of Health Equity: A History of Latin American Social Medicine