Health and medicine is more than just biological—societal forces can get under your skin and cause illness. Medical ...

Over the last 6 decades, many published commentaries, from both within and outside the medical community, have criticized medicine’s characterization and management of mental illness and disability.

Regarding the treatment of serious mental Illness (SMI), there is currently a fundamental rift between two camps, one known as the "Medical Model," basically scientific psychiatry, and the "Recovery ...

In Ahmed Samei Huda’s book, The Medical Model in Mental Health, the author effectively situates the field of mental health within the purview of the medical model. Huda provides a critique of aspects ...

ADHD may reflect environment mismatch; meds help short-term, not long-term. A growing body of research challenges the traditional medical model of ADHD, suggesting that the condition is often shaped ...

In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine some of the reforms and enthusiasms that permeate education. In a field full of buzzwords and jargon, our goal is ...