M. Gregg Bloche is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Health Law, Policy, & Ethics at Georgetown University. His writing on medicine’s cultural, economic, and national-security roles has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, New England Journal of Medicine, and other media, academic, and professional venues. He’s a lawyer and psychiatrist by training, a former Guggenheim Fellow, and past and present board member of multiple academic journals and human-rights organizations.