Jun 15, 2012
HAVANA NAGILA Falafel in Cuba
I had stopped at my sister's house on my way to La Habana. Affectionate as she is, didnt want me to go without some middle eastern food, so thrusted a…
Stories
Field notes from the road
Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Apr 15, 2012
Medical Anthropology in Paris The Cuban Connection
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Medical Anthropology in Paris- The Cuban Connection Soon after graduating from the Medical Anthropology programme in London, I was requested to give…
Apr 15, 2012
DIABETES CARE WITHOUT BORDERS: MOPOTSYO.ORG OF CAMBODIA
I have been very lucky to have become involved in International Health at an early stage of my Medial Career. It was not something that was encouraged or looked upon…
Jan 15, 2012
A Friday Dinner with friends in Paris
It was billed as an ordinary dinner, after I had lit shabbat candles and thought of the appropriate people. Just six of us.. what you can call a Dinner Party.…
Dec 15, 2011
UmonHon to Bretons via Los Cubanos
It has been an unusually mild winter week in the North Eastern Corner of Nebraska. I left at 11 am from the Blue House, while the skies were cloudless and…
Nov 15, 2011
PHILOSOPHICAL COUNSELING IN HAVANA, CUBA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Fieldwork in Immersion Philosophical Counselling The reality of Cuba is to be experienced and understood and not enjoyed only from the comforts…
Jul 15, 2011
DALAI LAMA ON COOKING AND STRUCTURAL DEFECT OF THE MIND: JUDGEMENT AND AVERSION
DALAI LAMA ON COOKING and THE KLEISHA [STRUCTURAL DEFECT OF THE MIND] OF AVERSION There are many intimidating judges that one may face on a cooking show (the fiery Gordon…
Jun 15, 2011
ALTERNATIVE OR COMPLIMENTARY MEDICINE.. ONE VIEW
COMPLIMENTARY OR ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE WHERE DOES YOGA/AYURVEDA/ACUPUNCTURE FIT INTO THIS PUZZLE The predominant discourse about Health in this world, in the developed and developing world is Western Medicine or called…
Jun 15, 2011
ALAIN DE BOTTON ON SUCCESS:SENSATION OF SUCCESS. ARE YOU A FAILURE?
ALAIN DE BOTTON ON SUCCESS SENSATION OF SUCCESS. ARE YOU A FAILURE? Alain de Botton, the modern day philosopher who writes and talks about Happiness, Work, Love and Philosophy has…
Mar 15, 2011
A Visit to the British Museum: Grandeur and Longing
thai golden café, museum street, central London visit to the british museum the same imposing columns, that greeted a young medical student from the antipodes you enter, the first turn…
Feb 15, 2011
What does LIFESTYLE CHANGES mean?
LIFE STYLE CHANGES VERSUS QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES The recently released information on Obesity rates in America and also the rest of the world, serve the troubadours of the tragedy,…
Feb 15, 2011
CULTURE OF GEOGRAPHY OF BIRTH
Culture of Geography of Birth? I was told of a forthcoming wedding in Paris. A Mali born French Nanny in her early thirties with a 12 year old daughter will…
Feb 15, 2011
Loss of Dr Joel Glaser: Adios Mi Gran Amigo
Death of Dr. Joel Stephen Glaser Loss of a Book that educated you Dr. Glaser, with his late wife Irena, had been part of every step of my life in…
Dec 15, 2010
Symbolic Healing among the Kickapoo of Mexico
I have a sister, Menacuatucua. Eventhough I do not belong to her tribe (The Traditional Kickapoo who have homes in Eagle Pass, Texas and Nacimiento de los Negros at the…
Sep 15, 2010
Continental Airlines and Me.. a perfect fit for a Frequent Flier
it never ceases to amaze me the luck I have with Continental Airlines! I am writing this in Miami having just arrived here on CO 190 a 737-500, safely transported…
Aug 15, 2010
Excess in the Land of Plenty
Arriving soon after a visit to Myanmar, two weeks ago I was in Yangon, the food served at the American Resto in Miami, Bahamas Breeze, gives me a great sensation…
Jul 15, 2010
False Indians of Cuba .. the so called Tainos
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false IDENTITY It would be a wonderful world, if you could consider each and every person as a human being,…
Jun 15, 2010
Saturday Afternoon in South Miami
Visit to a Catholic Church to say Thanks.. American Indians always say that people pray and when they are rewarded, they forget to thank the people responsible for it. After…