Magic Silver Bullet
Kristin GourlayEveryone wants the perfect cure. Stories from medicine, art, culture and history about our obsession. Posts about every other week.
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The Balm of Maps in Maggie O'Farrell's Land
I just finished Maggie O’Farrell’s magical novel Land, about a land surveyor in 1800s rural Ireland. He’s been conscripted by the British army to map every crook and crevice of the deep western countryside, taking his son along to hold the...
Whose Pain Is Acceptable?
We all want to numb pain. But we can’t erase centuries of debate about who is entitled to pain relief and who makes that decision.
We’re getting better at treating pain, but I don’t think we’re getting better at treating it equitably. I’ve...
Organotherapy: The 1880s Answer to "Low T"
More than 100 years before Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ever contemplated testosterone screening for soldiers—about which the Washington Post pointed out that:
“…current medical guidelines generally recommend against blanket testing of...
Kratom worked, then betrayed him
A dear friend, whom I’ll call R., was addicted to a drug called kratom.
He’s now in recovery. I think he’d agree it’s day by day, as is most early recovery. He’s also in recovery from alcohol use disorder. He’s done a lot of work to get e...
On relentlessness
My mother took me to see the musical Suffs. I’ve been studying women’s suffrage for a little while now for a project I’m working on. But so much of it was new to my mother. “Why didn’t I learn any of this in school?” she asked.
The...
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Exploring the hows and whys of our pursuit for the perfect cure. Especially obsessed with the nooks and crannies of bizarre medical history. Chicago-based writer with Pubs in The Rumpus, McSweeneys, NPR, Catapult Story, Off Assignment.
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