Archive: 2022

Editor-in-Chief Paul Farmer died in his sleep, in Rwanda, on February 21. It is with great sadness that we write this news, remembering our leader at the Journal, a man deeply committed to human rights and health, to exposing and overcoming the…

Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 77-84 |  PDF Mohammed Alkhaldi, Rachel Coghlan, Simon Miller, Aisha al Basuoni, Osama Tanous, and Yara M. Asi Introduction In early June 2021, Scientific American published a statement by health care workers,…

Volume 24/1, June 2022, pp. 125-127 |  PDF Abby Stoddard Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War, by Leonard Rubenstein (Columbia University Press, 2021) In the mid-19th century, a brief and…

Yazid Barhoush On March 25th, 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic escalated, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, called for governments to “not forget those behind bars” and “act quickly to reduce the number of people in…

Volume 24/2, December 2022, pp. 111-114 |  PDF Joseph J. Amon, Nina Sun, Alexandrina Iovita, Ralf Jurgens, and Joanne Csete Over the past two decades, considerable work has been done to theorize, understand, and quantify the impact of stigma…

Gideon Lasco, Raudah Mohd Yunus, Edward Christopher Dee, and Martin McKee Health workers have been on the clinical front lines of the struggle against COVID-19, enduring conditions they could never have anticipated. But many have also been engaged on…