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.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Arrogance, a Structural Defect of the Mind KLEISHA Arrogance arises out of ignorance, and also from attachment, thus connected to other structural defects of our minds, and in addition to…
Long Live Fidel, Shout my Malaysian and Indonesian Friends The night had just fallen and we could look at the Mekong River from where we were sitting. Our little group…
HOW DOES ONE BECOME INTERESTED IN GEOGRAPHY? I was a pre-schooler, when my grandfather, olav ha shalom, came into the room with a bagful of sweets and said: these are…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE WHEN ONE DOOR IS CLOSED, DON’T YOU KNOW THE OTHER IS OPEN? Those lyrics from Bob Marley, Philosopher from Jamaica, always held…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Effect of macronutrient composition of weight loss diets on reduction of the inflammatory marker hsCRP http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/12/S1/O5 Published on 12 th June 2012…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A French academician once put it: English is a language that is relatively EASY to speak POORLY. A language so rich as…
Some Good News about Iran These days, one hardly hears anything good from Iran. Just yesterday USA tightened the sanctions against Iran, banning certain people and companies including some tanker…
Going Home, A good day to Fly.. Websites, newspapers and radio are full of horror stories of air travel within the USA, but they are just talking about the structural…
Normally I do not participate in internet Forums or discussions unless something is that close to my heart. When someone had posted in a scientific forum that Sugar is the…
As I approached the Terminal 2 of Jose Marti International Airport in La Habana, Cuba, imagine my surprise when I saw the familiar red and white Kangaroo Tail of a…
PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMBLE MAN OF BOGOR He runs a company, which employs 150 people. He has to travel a lot to USA, Europe, SE Asia, which keeps him away…
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…
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…
The Wandering Jewish Endocrinologist, in anthropological parlance, The Other who has a Name.. in just a couple of days, so much happens, so much does happen in the course of…
This morning the sun has risen and a bright morning is in store.. Just exactly one week ago, around this time, in Toulouse, a father took his two children to…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE GASTRONOMIC PLEASURES OF SOUTHERN MOROCCO I distinctly remember, handwritten over a small Taco Bar/Resto in Merida, Mexico: To eat well, is not…
It was France, USA, India and Oman in January and I have just finished my second trip for the year 2012 CDG-SIN-KCH-KUL-PNH-ICN-LAX-IAH-OMA-IAH-SAT-EAGLE PASS-SAT-IAH-CDG I can use Food as a Metaphor…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: QUALITATIVE VS QUANTITATIVE Being Both a Physician and an Anthropologist, I can see the mechanism of problem solving among Physicians:…
