The piece serves as a poignant commentary on the commodification of well-being, raising questions about the efficacy of medication (Placebo Effect), and the contemporary pharmaceutical industry.
Bioethics is better able to include various kinds of people, but this tension between the disability movement and modern bioethics shows that we still have a long way to go in our considerations of the moral status of patients.
The way women are treated within Western medical systems, namely their frequent misdiagnosis, can be attributed to the explicit gender bias within medicine.
I soon joined the club of licit pink-pill slipping girls myself, along with the 82 percent of teen birth-control users who rely on the drug for purposes, at least in part, other than pregnancy prevention.
The responses of Christian organizations to the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and to the current coronavirus pandemic reveal how faith is interlaid with freedom and emphasize Christianity's impact in secular realms.