Terry Gross

Novelist Amy Bloom talks about how, at her husband’s insistence, she traveled with him to Zurich so he could legally terminate his life. Her new memoir is In Love.

The Comstock Act, which passed in 1873, virtually outlawed contraception. In The Man Who Hated Women, author Amy Sohn writes about the man behind the law — and the women prosecuted under it.

MIT bioengineer Linda Griffith spent years in debilitating pain before she was diagnosed with a condition often neglected in research. Her focus on the basic biology could lead to better treatments.

MIT bioengineer Linda Griffith spent years in debilitating pain before she was diagnosed with a condition often neglected in research. Her focus on the basic biology could lead to better treatments.

There is a 30-year gap in the life expectancy of some Black and white Chicagoans. Journalist Linda Villarosa talks about the link between racism and health outcomes, and tells her own family’s story.

Katie Engelhart explores the complexity of physician-assisted death in the book, The Inevitable. She says patients seeking to end their own lives sometimes resort to veterinary drugs from overseas.

In his new book, The Ten Year War, Jonathan Cohn looks at the intense debate surrounding the Affordable Care Act, the compromises of the law itself, and the ongoing fight for universal health care.

It’s early days yet, but Dr. Anthony Fauci says he’s encouraged by the new president’s approach to the pandemic. Science, Fauci says, is “going to rule.” And the whole world needs vaccine.

The U.S. has only four percent of the world’s population — and yet it accounts for 20 percent of all COVID deaths. New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright discusses America’s pandemic year.

Atlantic writer Ed Yong says the COVID-19 vaccination program will be the most complicated the U.S. has ever attempted: “It’s going to be a slow process, and there are a lot of possible roadblocks.”