Medical Themes: <span>Medical Anthropology</span>

Browse the field notes by date, topic, place, and memory.

A field note on the difference between curing disease and healing persons, drawn from an afternoon in an Indigenous clinic.

A personal farewell to Raghu Rai and the photographs, memories, and human presence his work carried.

A quiet Miami field note on gardens, attention, and the relief of stepping outside the city’s noise.

A reflection on medicine, anthropology, and long relationships with Indigenous communities around the world.

A medical-anthropological reflection on hidden stress, inflammation, and the slow currents beneath measurable disease.

A portrait of Yaqut al-Hamawi, the medieval geographer whose life began in captivity and became a vast act of description.

A physician-anthropologist’s reflection on breath, physiology, and the clinical meaning of contemplative practice.

A field reflection on humility, Indigenous wisdom, and the difference between knowledge and presence.

A short field note on compassion, ordinary encounters, and the unexpected pleasures of a working day.

A comparative note on how different spiritual traditions warn against turning practice into ego.

A reflection on spiritual materialism, ego, and the danger of turning belief into justification.

A reflection on Japanese colour names, transition, and the brief emotional weather of human life.