Anna Kirkland

A small, special court in the United States Court of Federal Claims handles the controversial claims when vaccines are believed to have harmed someone.

Jonathan Metzl, associate professor of women's studies and psychiatry at the University of Michigan, and Anna Kirkland, associate professor of women's studies and political science at the University of Michigan, discuss health's role in our ethical landscape. They are editors of a new book, Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality. 

Anna Kirkland, assistant professor of women's studies and political science at the University of Michigan and author of Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood, and blogger Lara Frater, author of Fat Chicks Rule!: How To Survive in a Thin-Centric World, look at the ...