Paula K Span

If you’ve read something provocative, thoughtful or mildly outrageous about health care in recent years (sample headline: “Why I Hope to Die at 75”), there’s a decent chance the author was Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D. — oncologist, bioethicist and White House adviser on Obamacare. You’ll find him keynoting...

Sherry Turkle was spending a postdoctoral year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when she encountered the pioneers researching computer science, robotics and artificial intelligence -- and discovered her life’s work. A psychologist with psychoanalytic training, she has spent the subsequen...

For more than 30 years, most New York theater seasons have included a work by playwright and director John Patrick Shanley. He began writing off-Broadway shows after a hitch with the Marine Corps and went on to win the 2005 Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for “Doubt,” which explored the emerging i...

What will you do when you get the call that a loved one has had a heart attack or a stroke? Or when you realize that a family member is too frail to live alone, but too healthy for a nursing home?Journalist Paula Span shares the resonant narratives of several families who faced these questions. Each...

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