May 15, 2011
LIFE STYLE CHANGE FOR TYPE 2 DIABETES
What is lifestyle Change for a patient with Diabetes? A patient with Type 2 Diabetes is usually given a lot of information but rarely given tools to understand why they…
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Medical Themes: <span>Medical Anthropology</span>
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May 15, 2011
The Experience of Raja Yoga: Notes from Malaysia
What is the image of Yoga in the western mind? Twisted bodies in contorted poses, clean studios where a group of people meditating or out in the open, preferably by…
May 15, 2011
PLASTICITY AND THE BRAIN: A BASIS FOR YOGA CURE
PLASTICITY AND THE BRAIN: A BASIS FOR YOGA CURE? Brain was viewed as a static organ in the body until as recent as the 1980s. We can now say with…
May 15, 2011
YOGA IN KUALA LUMPUR: LIFESTYLE COACH OF MALAYSIA
In these modern times, when changes are occurring at a mind boggling speed and technology and its benefits overwhelming us; why is that all of us, young and old, look…
Apr 15, 2011
Diversity in America.. the most beautiful aspect of being here
Within a matter of hours, I had gone from Spanish voices and mexican indian faces to a plethora of japanese faces with announcements in Japanese... did i travel long? No.…
Apr 15, 2011
The Best Medical Anthropology Programme. BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON
I was educated both in Medicine and Medical Anthropology and the education that keeps on giving me more and more is the education I received at Brunel University London in…
Mar 15, 2011
Endocrinologist/Medical Anthropologist, an insight into the life of one
Wandering Medical Anthropologist and Endocrinologist: A prescription for a Stress Free Life Day 1 March 4 th , 2011 EuroStar. Paris Gare du Nord to St Pancras, London. 2h 32…
Mar 15, 2011
What all Happens in the course of One day?
HOW MUCH HAPPENS IN A DAY Cuanto pasa en un dia. title of a poem by Pablo Neruda from his collection Extravagaria, translated by Alastair Reid… “But, in one day,…
Mar 15, 2011
Cuban Doctors, Cholera in Haiti and their valiant Assistance
I am so proud of what the Cuban doctors are doing, to help the sister nation of Haiti . This is the little known aspect of Cuba's aid to 69…
Feb 15, 2011
Native American Wisdom to live by
I believe that being a medicine man, more than anything else, is a state of mind, a way of looking at and understanding this earth, a sense of what it…
Feb 15, 2011
Homeopathy/Natural Care for Chronic Rhinitis
Natural Remedies for Chronic Rhinitis, Sinusitis and Oro-pharyngitis If you are one of the multitudes of sufferers, the Chinese are especially burdened with this, of Chronic Rhinitis, you can be…
Feb 15, 2011
It is a WONDERFUL WORLD if you care to search for it…
Man Asian Literary Prize to be announced on March 17 Contenders Kenzaburo Oe The Changeling Japan Manu Joseph Serious Man Inde Bie Feiyu 3 sisters chine Tabish Khair The thing…