Philip Alcabes

Philip Alcabes is Professor Emeritus of Public Health at Hunter College, the City University of New York. His writing on health, medicine, and illness has appeared in the Scholar since 2004. He is working on a book about the institution of medicine and public health.

The Twilight Self

Embracing mutability in a world gone mad means understanding how fantasy took hold of American psychiatry

By Philip Alcabes | Monday December 1, 2025

The Pandemic Mood

Who created it and how it is maintained

By Philip Alcabes | Saturday January 8, 2022

After the Chaos

Who tells the story of Covid and what will it mean?

By Philip Alcabes | Saturday June 12, 2021

Experimental Overreach

Why doctors and researchers must ask for consent

By Philip Alcabes | Saturday April 3, 2021

The Costs of Prudentialism

Why our public-health institutions failed to stop Covid-19

By Philip Alcabes | Saturday January 16, 2021

Coronavirus and the Coming Election

No matter who wins, the pandemic isn’t going away anytime soon

By Philip Alcabes | Saturday October 31, 2020

Coronavirus and the Withering of the Public Sphere

What are the chances of a post-pandemic world?

By Philip Alcabes | Saturday September 19, 2020

Race and Public Health

The coronavirus reveals how this country fails to relieve suffering

By Philip Alcabes | Saturday September 5, 2020

Bodies and Breath

All the ways we choke off lives

By Philip Alcabes | Thursday June 25, 2020

Coronavirus World

Numbers, meaning, and truth

By Philip Alcabes | Monday June 1, 2020

The Twilight Self

By Philip Alcabes | Monday December 1, 2025

The Pandemic Mood

By Philip Alcabes | Saturday January 8, 2022

After the Chaos

By Philip Alcabes | Saturday June 12, 2021

Experimental Overreach

By Philip Alcabes | Saturday April 3, 2021

The Costs of Prudentialism

By Philip Alcabes | Saturday January 16, 2021

Coronavirus and the Coming Election

By Philip Alcabes | Saturday October 31, 2020

Race and Public Health

By Philip Alcabes | Saturday September 5, 2020

Bodies and Breath

By Philip Alcabes | Thursday June 25, 2020

Coronavirus World

By Philip Alcabes | Monday June 1, 2020

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