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Kidder has just published the results in Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World—an account as challenging as it is edifying. His latest non-fiction book is really two works in one: alongside the litany of Farmer’s achievements, recited with his usual eye for detail, Kidder unflinchingly explores the moral and emotional complexity surrounding the book’s creation...
...people being treated for depression chose the drug option in 1987; 10 years later the percentage had doubled to 75%. And with newer and better antidepressants available all the time, those numbers are growing. Often just as effective as any drug is cognitive therapy, a form of the talking cure that teaches depressives to reframe their view of the world, questioning the catastrophic or fatalistic spin they put on otherwise innocuous events. The two approaches--medication and therapy--work especially well together...
Halle said he intended the piece to debunk the “belief among those of Summers’ ilk that markets are the cure-all for everything...
...Cure for What Ails Germany? Like characters in the TV drama ER, Germany's emergency-room doctors have a pretty tough life: work a day shift, spend the night in the hospital as the doctor "on call," and then work another day shift. Thanks to a complaint from a doctor in the city of Kiel, their life may now get easier...
Summoned by e-mails, random strangers have been gathering at specific times in predetermined places this summer to engage in miscellaneous collective action. If this sounds vague, that's because it is. Whether the phenomenon, referred to as a "flash mob," is a cure for the ennui of the wired generation or an incipient form of social protest may be open to debate. But what is clear is that flash mobbing is global, and it's spreading. One mob recently gathered in New York City's Central Park, mimicked bird calls and chanted "Nature, nature" for 20 seconds...