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May 29, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Clancy Martin
“The Devil’s Best Trick,” Randall Sullivan’s in-depth occult investigation, is not for the easily frightened.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
elmundo.es | Clancy Martin
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
harvardpublichealth.org | Clancy Martin
Filed Under Equity Policy & Practice Global Health Written by Harvard Public Health Staff Published December 19, 2023 Read Time 6 min Tens of thousands of you have visited Harvard Public Health this year to read our original reporting, opinion essays, book reviews, interviews, and more. Here’s a selection of your favorites—and ours. In the Louisiana bayou, Native American tribes are living in what journalist Barry Yeoman calls “a feedback loop of destruction.” Between decades of...
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
harvardpublichealth.org | Clancy Martin |Maura Kelly
During the decade he spent working as a primary care doctor, Jeremy Nobel began to notice that loneliness could be a health problem. Patients who told him they felt isolated weren’t great about taking care of themselves; they missed appointments and skipped their medications.
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Jul 17, 2023 | 
harvardpublichealth.org | Jennifer Vanderbes |Clancy Martin |Richard J. Tofel
Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims, by Jennifer VanderbesIf Americans remember the tragedy of thalidomide, it’s as a story of the FDA and some courageous investigative reporters saving the United States from a public health disaster. The U.S. never approved the drug, which killed perhaps 10,000 children in Europe and caused thousands more to be born with serious birth defects.
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Apr 25, 2023 | 
vnexplorer.net | Clancy Martin
Compared with its wealthy peer nations, the United States is failing the most basic test of a civilization: keeping its denizens alive. As my colleague Derek Thompson wrote last week, U.S. life spans are shorter on average than in much of Europe, Japan, South Korea, and Australia. I called Derek to discuss why the nation's life-expectancy rate is falling behind, and what can be done about it.
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Apr 23, 2023 | 
newsbreak.com | Clancy Martin
If you are having thoughts of suicide, please know that you are not alone. If you are in danger of acting on suicidal thoughts, call 911. For support and resources, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988 or text 741-741 for the Crisis Text Line. In March 2020, my partner, Amie; our 2-year-old son, Ratna; and I, who usually live in Kansas City, Missouri, were visiting Kerala, India, about to be in the throes of the country’s first COVID outbreak.
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Apr 21, 2023 | 
nytimes.com | Clancy Martin
Guest EssayApril 21, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ETSend any friend a storyAs a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Clancy MartinMr. Martin is professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri in Kansas City and Ashoka University in New Delhi, and the author of “How Not to Kill Yourself.”Sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of the news and a guide to the big ideas shaping the world every weekday morning.
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Apr 1, 2023 | 
wsj.com | Clancy Martin
By Clancy MartinApril 1, 2023 12:01 am ETIn 2011, I was in the psychiatric hospital because I’d tried to kill myself for the third time that dark year. I wouldn’t be released unless my psychiatrist believed I was no longer at risk for “harming myself,” the common euphemism for a suicide attempt. He asked: “You’re having self-destructive thoughts?” I lied: “No. But I worry they could come back, once I’m in ordinary life, with work, family.” It was what he wanted to hear. “Progress,” he said.
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Mar 28, 2023 | 
lithub.com | Clancy Martin
The last time I tried to kill myself was in my basement with a dog leash. As usual, I didn’t write a note. I carried down a green leather and wood chair from my office while my dog watched from the stairs. She’s afraid of the basement. I took the heavy blue canvas leash, looped it over a beam, made a noose by snaking the leash through the handle, latched it, and checked it for strength. I stood on the green chair and put the noose around my neck.
