Jan 15, 2025
What Is International Medicine?
A physician-anthropologist’s definition of international medicine, beyond romance, rescue fantasy, and institutional cliché.
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.
Jan 15, 2025
A Hard Rock Café T-Shirt from Porto and Elvis Costello
A field note on travel, music, Indigenous patients, and the unexpected ways people and places are related.
Jan 15, 2025
Healing and Caring Rather Than Curing Among Indigenous Peoples
A field note on Indigenous care, monthly clinical gatherings, and the difference between service and healing.