A report on the failures of America's medical system is told through the experiences of its victims, from a worker whose wife died from cancer after his employer stopped providing insurance, to a disabled infant's mother who fought to get therapy coverage.

The author calls for the rational and skeptical practice of medicine that does not neglect or favor patients based on wealth or insurance coverage and follows scientifically-based protocols that do not kowtow to trendy drugs.

An incisive examination of bioethics and American healthcare, and their profound effects on American culture over the last 60 years, from two eminent scholars.

Unnatural causes sounds the alarm about the extent of our glaring socio-economic and racial inequities in health and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. While we pour more and more money into drugs, dietary supplements and new medical technologies, Unnatural causes crisscrosses the country investigating the findings that are shaking up conventional understanding of what really makes us healthy or sick. This...

Declared wards of the state, Native Americans negotiated housing, education and healthcare in numerous treaties with the US Government. Like so many other federal promises, these too have not been met.