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"must we treat what are obviously systemic problems as failures
of individual morality? () patients have described the experience of
receiving their drugs as humiliating—() being told that this only happened because they wereunclean or poor or otherwise lesser— () and yet we always seem to blame the patient for noncompliance, rather than blaming the structures of the social order that make compliance more difficult."
— Oct 30, 2026 05:28AM
of individual morality? () patients have described the experience of
receiving their drugs as humiliating—() being told that this only happened because they wereunclean or poor or otherwise lesser— () and yet we always seem to blame the patient for noncompliance, rather than blaming the structures of the social order that make compliance more difficult."
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"nd so just as Britain was ground zero for the Industrial Revolution, it was ground zero for the explosion of tuberculosis. Similar outbreaks have occurred in the twentieth century in India and Nigeria as they industrialized. “TB’s parallel journey with capital,” as the investigative journalist Vidya Krishnan put it, appears in outbreak after outbreak."
— Oct 29, 2026 08:49AM
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We would like to imagine (...) that human
history is largely the story of human choice. Perhaps this is why rumors
have swirled for millennia that Alexander the Great died of poisoning (...). We simply don’t want a world where even the most powerful emperor can be felled by mere infection. But history, alas, is not merely a record of what we do, but also a record of what is done to us."
— Oct 29, 2026 05:54AM
history is largely the story of human choice. Perhaps this is why rumors
have swirled for millennia that Alexander the Great died of poisoning (...). We simply don’t want a world where even the most powerful emperor can be felled by mere infection. But history, alas, is not merely a record of what we do, but also a record of what is done to us."