ON THE COVER: Without sanitation, vaccines, quarantines, and other measures the modern city could not exist. Yet contemporary urban environments present a host of new and old problems alike.
THE PRICE OF HEALTH The follies of the World Bank, the corrupt regime of President Robert Mugabe, and the AIDS epidemic have contributed to the collapse of Zimbabwe's once esteemed Harare Central Hospital. More>>
NOT FIT ENOUGH TO ADOPT Long recognized as a leading model for the world, the Chinese international adoption program is now banning obese parents. More>>
ACRES OF SKIN
Memories of the Holmesburg Prison and Tuskegee Syphilius Study resurface as new regulations concerning drug testing on inmates are being considered. More>>
