Ad Missions: How Insurance Companies Sell Ideology
The insurance industry's ad campaign to convince us it's wrong to help sick people
Of Alms and the Woman
How white women social reformers wrote their class and race prejudices into welfare policy
On Seeing Things for the First Time
You might as well be dead if you don’t notice what’s happening while you’re here.
In the Dead of Winter, Signs of Life
I always start the winter by forcing Paperwhites to take the edge off my hunger for spring.
And To Think That I Saw It Off Beacon Street
Drama and diversity in a tiny pond sandwiched between urban thoroughfares
Going on Pond Time
Pond-watching takes me into another world in another time zone
Fishing for a Living
Waiting patiently to see how Great Blue Herons catch their dinner
The Implications of the Human Genome Initiative for Access to Health Insurance
This is the work that got me on The Today Show with Bryant Gumble to debate a representative of the insurance industry.
Bedside Manna: The Revolution in Medical Ethics
We've gone back to the days when doctors were salesmen first, healers second.
Care and Trembling
Caregivers have to negotiate between doing right by their clients and keeping their jobs.
