Jun 15, 2007
The Nightingale of Zanzibar
On my first visit to Zanzibar, I had journeyed there from South Africa. At the end of a long flight from Atlanta to Cape Town, my good friend was waiting…
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.
Jun 15, 2007
A Dream Dreaming of Itself..Musings from Paris
Friday, 1 June 2007 A young Arab French girl with a visible bulging belly and her hair dyed blonde serves me a glass of house wine. As happens in the…
Jun 15, 2007
Gracias Hermanos Mexicanos
Today I had spent a considerable time discussing spiritedly how to improve the care of chronic illnesses such as Diabetes among the Indians who live in these desolate plains in…