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Bush’s band-aid approach
Fran Smith
A prestigious, congressionally mandated report has found that minority Americans receive glaringly inferior medical care. The Bush response: Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day!
“The Fasting Girl” by Michelle Stacey
Kate Bolick
Victorian America's foremost anorexic became hugely famous for surviving for 12 years on a few spoonfuls of milk and a banana.
The arrogance of the Catholic Church
Robert Scheer
The pope's refusal to seriously address the current sex scandal -- and his attempt to blame homosexuals for the problem -- follows in a grand tradition of church coverups.
Envy and good fish just outside the padded cell
Douglas Lang
I ate my first seafood Newburg during my stay at a mental hospital. Not all of us knew where we were.
Literary Daybook, March 28
the Salon Books Editors
Real and imaginary events of interest to readers.
Mauling justice
Joan Walsh
Marjorie Knoller is guilty of being a loathsome creep. But she isn't guilty of second-degree murder -- and the gays celebrating her conviction are putting tribalism before justice.
The politics of money and insanity
Salon Staff
Readers respond to a Sept. 11 widow's anger at cartoonist Ted Rall, and to Douglas Cruickshank's criticism of the Andrea Yates verdict.
The Andrea Yates verdict is insane
Douglas Cruickshank
A mentally ill mother
is guilty of little more than extraordinary need and dangerous fragility, and both are
beyond her control.
Worst-case scenario
Suzanne O'Malley
I knew it was coming, but it's still hard to accept: In Texas, mental illness is not a defense to murder.
Swift injustice
Janelle Brown
Anger and frustration dominate reactions to the quick guilty verdict in the murder trial of Andrea Yates.
An introduction
Douglas Cruickshank, Jennifer Foote Sweeney
The Life and People sites offer a week of articles about many-splendored living things, some of them furry, all of them edible.
A cruel choice
Jennifer Foote Sweeney
A woman decides to have a child knowing that she's about to descend into dementia. That's morally indefensible.
Time’s up
Suzy Hansen
Welfare reform enacted in the prosperous '90s is pushing the first wave of families off public assistance amid today's recession. An expert talks about the consequences.
Colors flies over the cuckoo’s nest
Douglas Cruickshank
The Benetton publication's latest issue on mental illness puts respectable newsmagazines to shame.
“A Beautiful Mind”
Charles Taylor
Ron Howard and Russell Crowe team up to produce a very dumb movie about a very smart man.
Trauma culture
Charles Taylor
From Oklahoma City to New York, we've turned violent human loss into epic narratives of suffering and patriotism. Does this help people heal or hurt them?
“Blue Cats and Chartreuse Kittens” by Patricia Lynne Duffy
Alison Motluk
For people with synesthesia, letters, words and numbers have their own colors, and you can smell the shape of milk
When being holy hurts
Suzy Hansen
An historian talks about the modern face of "sacred pain," which religions use it the most and how self-cutters carry on the tradition.
This time the germs are real
Amy Traverso
For sufferers of obsessive-compulsive disorder, a real-live anthrax scare can mean years of misery.
2001: A great year for movies
Andrew O'Hehir
While the studios distracted us with big-budget behemoths, a renaissance in art film unfolded before our eyes.
If I tell her she isn’t invited, she’ll come anyway
Kyanna Sutton
As my wedding day approaches, I am a hostage to my mother's mental illness. I am petrified of what she may do on the day.
Long-distance love
Cary Tennis
My boyfriend smells good and I can't imagine kissing anyone else, but he lives in New Zealand! Our advice man consults on this and other conundrums.
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