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Andrew Solomon, PhD, is an American writer and speaker on diverse fields of research such as depression and suicide, identity politics, and culture. His book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

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The Legitimate Children of Rape

Writing in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Dr. Felicia H. Stewart and Dr. James Trussell have estimated that there are twenty-five thousand rape-related pregnancies each year in the United States.

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Andrew Solomon
2012
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Medical Progress, Social Progress, and Legal Regression

Both anti-abortionists and disability activists have sometimes suggested that women should defer to “nature” and have whatever baby they conceive. The bioethicist William Ruddick calls this the “ ‘hospitality’ view of women.

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Andrew Solomon
2013
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What Happens When You’re Disabled But Nobody Can Tell

The author and clinical psychologist Andrew Solomon examines the disabilities that ramps and designated parking spots don’t address.

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Andrew Solomon
2020
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Depression and Pregnancy: The Terrifying Dilemma

Some fifteen per cent of women suffer from depression during pregnancy, and the use of antidepressants in expectant women is on the rise.

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Andrew Solomon
2014
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Falling in Love with Marriage

When a friend first presented to me the arguments for gay marriage, in 1994, I thought the whole idea was ridiculous. In the face of staggering prejudice against us, marriage felt so remote as to be irrelevant.

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Andrew Solomon
2013
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Suicide, a Crime of Loneliness

Every forty seconds, someone commits suicide. In the United States, it is the tenth most common cause of death in people over ten years of age, far more common than death by homicide or aneurysm or aids.

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Andrew Solomon
2014
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The Myth of the ‘Autistic Shooter’

The wish to hurt others is tied not to autism but to psychopathy, which manifests in a deficiency or absence of empathy and remorse. Some autistic people may not recognize why they cause distress; psychopaths don’t care that they cause distress.

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Andrew Solomon
2015
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The Middle of Things: Advice for Young Writers

Despite every advancement, language remains the defining nexus of our humanity; it is where our knowledge and hope lie. It is the precondition of human tenderness, mightier than the sword but also infinitely more subtle and ultimately more urgent.

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Andrew Solomon
2015
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Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade, and the Preventable Tragedies of Suicide

The pattern of highly accomplished and successful people committing suicide is transfixing. It assures the rest of us that a life of accolades is not all that it’s cracked up to be and that achieving more will not make us happier.

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Andrew Solomon
2018
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