Cover issues of the medically uninsured, socially differential access to health care and clinical trials, medicalization of deviance, the opioid addiction epidemic, emergent contagious diseases such as Ebola and SARS, the sociology of the training of medical professionals, water quality crises in cities such as Flint, Michigan, the prevalence of gun violence as a public health issue in Chicago, the rise of depression among young people, how big health care and pharmaceutical industries dictate government health policies, disparities in life expectancy by zip code in Chicago.