Prof CK's Highlights on 'When Evidence Says No, but Doctors Say Yes'

Unstable Housing, Insecure Families

rickyholder.substack.com/p/unstable-housing-insecure-families

Apr 26, 2026

Erich Maria Remarque Is Dead; Novels Recorded Agony of War

archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0622.html

capacities

Remarque

war

Novels

Apr 26, 2026

205

For the First Time, ‘Redeemed’ Texas Parents May Get a Second Chance

www.texasobserver.org/for-the-first-time-redeemed-texas-parents-may-get-a-second-chance/

capacities

kinship, pregnancy, parenting

care & caregiving

kinship

law

Apr 5, 2026

Looking Closely is Everything — by Craig Mod

craigmod.com/essays/looking_closely/

Apr 2, 2026

Fluid Boundaries of Cure and Care: Contested Meaning of Intravenous Treatment

thepolyphony.org/2026/02/20/fluid-boundaries-of-cure-and-care/

medical-hx

Apr 2, 2026

America’s Recurring Protein Mania | by George Dillard | The Academic | Medium

medium.com/the-academic/americas-recurring-protein-mania-3e0a65a08ef8

Apr 1, 2026

Research Methods in Anthropology: Free Listing | by Anthropology 4U | Medium

anthropology4u.medium.com/research-methods-in-anthropology-free-listing-1b22abfeadd7

Apr 1, 2026

Healthcare Access for Older Adults Survey | Commonwealth Fund

www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/surveys/2025/apr/access-quality-care-older-adults-10-countries-2024-survey

Apr 1, 2026

Liam Shaw | Evergreening

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/july/evergreening

Foundations

Mar 23, 2026

Liam Shaw | Meningitis in Kent

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/meningitis-in-kent

Foundations

Mar 23, 2026

Paul Taylor · A Way to Be a Person: Overdiagnosis

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n04/paul-taylor/a-way-to-be-a-person

Foundations

Mar 23, 2026

An Epidemic of Unnecessary Treatment

www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/02/when-evidence-says-no-but-doctors-say-yes/517368/

Mar 6, 2026

The Nazi Anatomists

www.slate.com/articles/life/history/2013/11/nazi_anatomy_history_the_origins_of_conservatives_anti_abortion_claims_that.html

anatomy

medical history

Foundations

care class

knowledge

Mar 5, 2026

163

Anatomy in the Third Reich - The Anatomical Institute of the Reichsuniversität Strassburg and the deliveries of dead bodies - PubMed

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27060203/

anatomy

Nazi

Mar 5, 2026

Why Britain Stinks

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/britain-sewage-water-pollution-scandal/673655/

capacities

STAV

Mar 5, 2026

Children’s views of healthcare fundraising as ‘idioms of childhood’

thepolyphony.org/2024/10/25/childrens-views-healthcare/

Mar 3, 2026

Charity and hospitals: the past or the future?

thepolyphony.org/2024/10/30/charity-hospitals-past-future/

Mar 3, 2026

Creating a Living Archive of Assisted Dying

thepolyphony.org/2024/05/13/living-archive-assisted-dying/

aid-in-dyin

death

Mar 3, 2026

When Evidence Says No, but Doctors Say Yes

getpocket.com/explore/item/when-evidence-says-no-but-doctors-say-yes

healthcare

insurance

care class

Expertise

Foundations

Mar 2, 2026

495

Gretchen Sisson, "Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood" (St. Martin's Press, 2024) | New Books in Sociology

podwise.ai/dashboard/episodes/4781121

capacities

podwise

kinship

Feb 28, 2026

What Communes and Other Radical Experiments in Living Together Reveal | New York Times Podcasts

podwise.ai/dashboard/episodes/2229268

Foundations

capacities

Care

kinship

transcript

podcasts

Feb 28, 2026

Notes on the Inexact Sciences

suspendedreason.com/2021/08/30/notes-on-the-inexact-sciences/

capacities

Feb 26, 2026

Victorian diary-writers kicked off our age of self-optimisation

aeon.co/essays/victorian-diary-writers-kicked-off-our-age-of-self-optimisation

capacities

The-Self

Surveillance

On Writing

Feb 26, 2026

375

Meet the Vitalists: the hardcore longevity enthusiasts who believe death is “wrong”

www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/29/1131815/vitalism-longevity-enthusiasts-influence/

capacities

STAV

transhumanism

Feb 24, 2026

111

The New War on the Indian Child Welfare Act

politicalresearch.org/2019/11/11/new-war-indian-child-welfare-act

capacities

kinship, pregnancy, parenting

nations/ism

unread

now

Feb 24, 2026

Self-Determination

pesd.princeton.edu/node/656

capacities

definition

history

theory

law

Feb 24, 2026

The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-nuclear-family-was-a-mistake/605536/

capacities

kinship, pregnancy, parenting

care

families

key-fact

Feb 23, 2026

649

Health and Health Care Experiences of Immigrants: The 2023 KFF/LA Times Survey of Immigrants

www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/health-and-health-care-experiences-of-immigrants-the-2023-kff-la-times-survey-of-immigrants/

capacities

Feb 23, 2026

‘Back to the Future’: Defending Care in a New Era

www.chcf.org/resource/sandra-r-hernandez-defending-care-in-a-new-era/

capacities

Feb 23, 2026

An Expander in Every Child’s Palate

www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/01/do-kids-need-palate-expanders/685556/?utm_source=feed

capacities

Feb 23, 2026

How U.S. Public Opinion Has Changed in 20 Years of Our Surveys

www.bunkhistory.org/resources/how-us-public-opinion-has-changed-in-20-years-of-our-surveys

capacities

Feb 23, 2026

What is Health?

familymeetingnotes.substack.com/p/what-is-health

capacities

health

Foundations

Bspace

S26

Feb 7, 2026

495

Should Human Feces Be Regulated Like a Drug?

www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/06/the-uncertain-future-of-fecal-transplants/592363/

capacities

S26

Organs

Feb 3, 2026

She was pregnant and needed cash. Utah's thriving adoption industry was happy to help.

www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/12/utah-adoption-agency-brighter-dobbs/

capacities

Feb 2, 2026

‘People Say, You Sold Your Baby’

www.thecut.com/article/utah-adoption-private-adoption-agencies-investigation.html

capacities

Foundations

adoption

Kinship/Families

Commodities

Feb 2, 2026

483

If you were circumcised, are you a victim?

aeon.co/essays/if-you-were-circumcised-are-you-a-victim

capacities

gender

Organs

S26

Bspace

Enhamcement

Personhood

cosmetic surgery

Feb 2, 2026

In America, Fake Patients Get the Best Care

www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/01/fake-patients-american-healthcare/685510/

capacities

Feb 2, 2026

193

A Place Where Knowledge Is Ours for the Taking.

www.commonreader.co.uk/p/a-place-where-knowledge-is-ours-for?r=jc8l9&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

socrates

good life

being human

philosophy

writing

death

Feb 2, 2026

187

Getting “done” for concealment of pregnancy: Does a woman have a duty to inform healthcare staff of her pregnancy status? - Journal of Medical Ethics blog

blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2022/01/17/getting-done-for-concealment-of-pregnancy-does-a-woman-have-a-duty-to-inform-healthcare-staff-of-her-pregnancy-status/

Feb 2, 2026

Phenomenology

www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/phenomenology

embodiment

Liked

favorite

phenomenology

find

Feb 2, 2026

666

Shared Breath

longreads.com/2019/07/25/shared-breath/

Feb 2, 2026

Reading as Moral Formation

hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/reading-as-moral-formation

Feb 2, 2026

How to Ignore the Crumbling of the Body—and the Body Politic

commonreader.wustl.edu/how-to-ignore-the-crumbling-of-the-body-and-the-body-politic/

Feb 2, 2026

Seyla Benhabib | How to Read Hannah Arendt’s the Human Condition (1958) ?

blogs.law.columbia.edu/critique1313/seyla-benhabib-how-to-read-hannah-arendts-the-human-condition-1958/

Philosophy

Hannah Arendt

Feb 2, 2026

Muddling Through

www.commonwealmagazine.org/muddling-through

insurance

mental illness

healthcare

cure/care

care class

chronic illness

care

communication

Feb 2, 2026

276

The Medication Life and the Moral Career

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-medication-life-and-the-moral?r=jc8l9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

psychiatry

Feb 2, 2026

Sisyphus Gets a Prescription

hedgehogreview.com/issues/authenticity/articles/sisyphus-gets-a-prescription

Foundations

pharma

Feb 2, 2026