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T. M. Luhrmann

T. M. Luhrmann is the author of Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry.

Healing the Masses

Healing the Masses

The evolution of care at the nation’s oldest public hospital

by T. M. Luhrmann | Tuesday, September 06, 2016
Anyone Home?

Anyone Home?

The centuries-long debate over what resides between our ears

by T. M. Luhrmann | Monday, September 07, 2015
Fantastic Visions

Fantastic Visions

Not crazy, just creative

by T. M. Luhrmann | Friday, December 07, 2012
Living With Voices

Living With Voices

A new way to deal with disturbing voices offers hope for those with other forms of psychosis

by T. M. Luhrmann | Friday, June 01, 2012
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What the Jeffrey Epstein Case Can Teach Us About Sex Trafficking

by Scott W. Stern

Financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on Saturday and charged with new counts of sex trafficking. Epstein was previously investigated for alleged sex crimes, a controversial case that ended when he signed a nonprosecution agreement and served a 13-month jail sentence, with generous “work-release” privileges. In his article for the Scholar’s summer issue, Scott W. Stern refers to the Epstein case in highlighting the complexity of prostitution laws in the United States, which often make no distinction between consensual sex workers and trafficked ones—meaning that many trafficking victims are arrested and prosecuted while the men who solicit sex are let off the hook. “Trafficking survivors are likelier to go to the authorities,” he writes, “if they won’t be thrown in prison—or deported—as a result.”