Health Stories Of The Week: Belle Gibson, India's Surrogacy Industry And Catholic Vs. Jewish Guilt

ICYMI Health features what we're reading this week. This week, we were drawn to a Q&A with the journalist correspondent in a new film on the dark realities of India's surrogacy industry, as well the news that Australia's poster girl for healthy living might have misled the public about her cancer diagnosis. We also read up on the cultural differences between Catholic and Jewish guilt just in time to jump-start the conversation at Easter dinner or Seder this weekend. Read on and tell us in the comments: What did you read and love this week? 1. The Cancer Show: Part I -- On The Media "The Cancer Show," part of WYC's Living Cancer Series (radio companion to Ken Burns new PBS documentary, "Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies"), is packed full of insights about the way we talk about about cancer. Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning book that inspired Burn's film, traces treatments back to oldest medical documents we possess as humans -- including a papyrus scroll of case histories from ancient Egypt. Quote: "It turns out the war metaphor neither serves the patient, nor even describes the reality of contending with cancer in the designated battlefield of one's own body." 2. How the Gluteus Became Maximus -- The Atlantic A scientific explanation for why straight men prefer women with large backsides, as well as proof that health literature doesn't have to be dry. Quote: "Men want healthy offspring, so, the thinking goes, they wanted women who could ...
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