Many experts today insist that race profoundly affects how the medical-care system deals with patients, and that black patients will get care that is inferior to white patients. Is this true? In The H
The study analyzes and challenges the income inequality hypothesis, which purports to show that inequality in income--not poverty per se--is bad for people's health.
Americans have traditionally placed great value on self-reliance and fortitude. In recent decades,?however, we have seen the rise of a therapeutic ethic that views Americans as emotionally underdevelo