Divorce is one of the loneliest of modern rituals. Before, during, and after the actual culmination of the legal process it is an ordeal that rips pe….

Today age segregation has passed all sane limits. Not only are fifteen-year-olds isolated from seventy-year-olds but social groups divide those in hi….

Nursing may be the oldest art, but in the contemporary world, it is also one of the most invisible. One of the most invisible arts, sciences, and cer….

America must deal once and for all with an utterly irrational health care financing system that allows private interests to make billions in profits ….

The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are s….

In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceal….