Introducing ‘Being Human’: The Atlantic expands well being protection

The Atlantic expands well being protection with new part, reporting on the physique, thoughts, and the way we reside

Introducing Being Human section at The Atlantic
Illustration by Katie Martin. Sources: Getty

Right now The Atlantic is launching Being Human, a brand new part and publication at TheAtlantic.com as a part of a serious growth of its writing and reporting on well being. The identify describes The Atlantic’s wide-ranging strategy to well being protection, on what it means to reside a life certain up in a physique and carried out by a mysterious, fallible mind.

The Atlantic grew its health-reporting group considerably forward of this launch, and Being Human will broaden the journal’s present protection of the concepts and points that readers encounter on daily basis: wellness tradition, human habits, mortality and illness, and different mysteries of the physique and the thoughts.

Editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg stated of the growth: “The Atlantic’s well being group produces the neatest, most analytically acute, and best-written tales of any journalism outfit nationally, and with this new growth, we’re going to be complete in a means we haven’t been earlier than. In an age of mass confusion––not nearly well being, after all––I feel our group is completely positioned to deliver readability to this necessary protection space.”

Being Human launches with new reporting on the BRCA gene needing a rebrand, by Kristen V. Brown; how the broad assist for vaccines in America could also be examined by the incoming Trump administration, by Daniel Engber; and the best way persons are occupied with deodorant all improper, from Yasmin Tayag.

Discover extra tales on the Being Human part, and please attain out with questions or curiosity in interviewing our writers about their reporting.

Press Contact: Anna Bross | press@theatlantic.com