Many stories of ordinary people responding to suffering in extraordinary fashion have not yet been captured in forms that will last.

Should filmmakers make the pain of addiction bearable to watch? In "Beautiful Boy" and "Ben is Back" they try.

The costs of medicine in the United States are addressed in different, though complementary, ways in two new books on broken U.S. health care.

In their written responses, several readers invoked the Hippocratic Oath, from which the phrase “first do no harm” is derived.

The subject of every public policy question is a person, created and redeemed through love, writes Matt Malone, S.J.

The paramount concern of all prisons is safety. This is understandable, but it still seems unfair when security eclipses the health and well-being of inmates, writes John T. Booth.