health

Essays

Giving Voice to Stammerers

Abigail Bourguignon & translated by Oliver Waine - 19 March 2024

By meeting in self-help groups, far from the usual stigmas, people with stammers are able to talk together. This kind...

From the Field

From Scientific Uncertainty to Strategic Ignorance

Gwenola Le Naour & Valentin Thomas & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 November 2023

In the absence of data, uncertainties about the health risks of industrial pollution abound, and are used by private...

From the Field

Covid-19 in Seine-Saint-Denis (2/2): How the Health System Exacerbates Inequalities

Audrey Mariette & Laure Pitti & translated by Oliver Waine - 24 September 2021

Although public health measures and local solidarity have helped mitigate the impact of the coronavirus epidemic, the...

From the Field

Covid-19 in Seine-Saint-Denis (1/2): When the Pandemic Entrenches Health Inequalities

Audrey Mariette & Laure Pitti & translated by Oliver Waine - 17 September 2021

The Seine-Saint-Denis département, to the northeast of Paris, was hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic....

Interviews

15 Years of Researching Cities and Pandemics

S. Harris Ali & Creighton Connolly & Roger Keil - 9 February 2021

Beginning in 2006 with pioneering work on responses to the SARS crisis in global cities (and in particular Toronto,...

Debates

Covid-19, War, and Working-Class Neighborhoods

Pierre Gilbert & translated by Oliver Waine - 5 June 2020

The residents of France’s working-class neighborhoods, accused of exacerbating the coronavirus pandemic through their...

From the Field

#IStayCamp. Health Conditions, Food Deprivation and Solidarity Problems in the First Days of Lockdown in the Roma Villages of Rome

Carlo Stasolla & Tommaso Vitale - 28 April 2020

Activist research in formal settlements of emergency housing in Rome during the Covid‑19 lockdown reveals how such...

Reviews

Aubervilliers: Portrait of a Working-Class Suburb

Anaïs Albert & translated by Oliver Waine - 21 February 2020

The republication of an early-20th‑century realist novel set in the northern Paris suburb of Aubervilliers brings the...

Reviews

Incarceration, Human Rights, and Health: Life and Death in Rikers Island

Tawana Anthony - 25 June 2019

Tawana Anthony applauds Homer Venters’ Life and Death in Rikers Island for exposing the institutional indifference to...

From the Field

Proclaiming “Veggie Pride” in Paris and New York

Elizabeth Cherry - 22 November 2016

How do animal-rights activists promote vegetarianism? Many activists use environmental and health arguments, but this...

Reviews

Cities transformed by hygienism: 100 years of local innovation

Sabine Barles & translated by Oliver Waine - 27 March 2015

Hygiene is a “battle”, and the “hygienist revolution” of the 19th and early 20th centuries transformed our urban...

From the Field

The Horseshoe Crab, our Environment and our Health

Lisa Jean Moore - 15 December 2014

Will we erase all animal diversity in the name of modernity, or will we follow the hints given by the study of the...

Debates

Who cares about care? Health care rationalization and the demise of a public hospital after Katrina

Anne M. Lovell - 8 June 2011

Charity Hospital served the poor and uninsured in one of the US’s unhealthiest cities. Though repaired after Katrina,...

Interviews

Drug-consumption rooms in the city?

Laurent El Ghozi & Nadine Roudil & translated by Oliver Waine - 4 May 2011

Following a number of experiments in Geneva and Bilbao, the question of whether supervised injection centres should...

Giving Voice to Stammerers

From Scientific Uncertainty to Strategic Ignorance

Covid-19 in Seine-Saint-Denis (2/2): How the Health System Exacerbates Inequalities

Covid-19 in Seine-Saint-Denis (1/2): When the Pandemic Entrenches Health Inequalities

15 Years of Researching Cities and Pandemics

Covid-19, War, and Working-Class Neighborhoods

#IStayCamp. Health Conditions, Food Deprivation and Solidarity Problems in the First Days of Lockdown in the Roma Villages of Rome

Aubervilliers: Portrait of a Working-Class Suburb

Incarceration, Human Rights, and Health: Life and Death in Rikers Island

Proclaiming “Veggie Pride” in Paris and New York

Cities transformed by hygienism: 100 years of local innovation

The Horseshoe Crab, our Environment and our Health

Who cares about care? Health care rationalization and the demise of a public hospital after Katrina

Drug-consumption rooms in the city?

Series

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Covid-19 Transformed New York’s Destination Food Markets

Moving Inside City Limits: The Urban Mobility of Undocumented Youth

Filming Ethnic Diversity in New York

Looking Inward, Across the Border

The Political Aesthetics of Drag

Disarm the Police

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The Quiet Power of Car-Free Neighborhoods

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