Jan 15, 2019
IN SEARCH OF CUBAN COFFEE IN KEY LARGO FLORIDA KEYS
I was visiting some friends who live by the water in Key Largo, an hour and a bit drive from Miami. They suggested that we visit some places near by…
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, 2019
CASTRO THE LITTLE POET OF BARACOA COMES TO VISIT LA HABANA
MIguel Angel Castro, the Historian and the poet laureate of Baracoa came to visit La Habana and the day spent together was memorable. We had collected a treasure trove of…
Jan 15, 2019
ARE THE PROBIOTICS OFF THE SHELF GOOD FOR YOU… MAY BE NOT
There is an increasing interest in MICROBIOME, the large number of bacteria that inhabit our guts. Once certain relationships became clearer to scientists: good and bad bacteria, lack of diversity,…
Jan 15, 2019
MICROBIOME AND KIDNEY AND OTHER INFLAMMATORY DISEASES
I was requested to present an Introduction to Microbiome and its effect upon (or vice versa) on the Kidney diseases at a health fair being held at a tribal auditorium…
Jan 15, 2019
SAUDADE DO AMAZONIA THESE PHOTOS TAKEN ONE YEAR AGO 26.1.2018 LETICIA COLOMBIA
Long time ago I had visited Iquitos on the Peruvian Amazon while I was a student in Miami and had been wanting to go to the Amazon: Colombian and Brasilian…
Jan 15, 2019
SCREAM MUNCH AGONY OF THE TIMES
Oslo and Norway hold special places in my heart. For a naive australian young man visiting northern europe for the first time and incredibly susceptible to the romance of the…
Jan 15, 2019
PETRIFIED ACCOUNTANTS OF EASTER ISLAND
I had been thinking of Easter Island Rapa Nui or Ile de Paques Isla de Pascua and as if in coincidence I came across a cartoon from a book. That…
Jan 15, 2019
MADE HOMELESS BY TRAVEL: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR A LIVING
I am grateful whoever the person was, for introducing me to Moritz Thomsen, a beautiful soul, a peace corps volunteer in the 1960s, trying hard to make the life of…
Jan 15, 2019
Le cancer bientôt vaincu par des chercheurs israéliens?
0 0 1 26 150 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 1 1 175 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Une équipe de scientifiques israéliens affirme qu’ils…
Jan 15, 2019
I AM DOING MY LITTLE BIT FOR CUBA
0 0 1 386 2203 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 18 5 2584 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE What all has happened? Today is 9…
Dec 15, 2018
JOURNEY TO THE INDIANS
I was not prepared for this weather -4 C .. I had left the balmy Havana streets and the parque and my good friends and I arrived at Omaha Airport…
Dec 15, 2018
SUGAR IN THE COCA COLA HOW DO YOU WANT IT ?
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2018/12/sugar-in-coca-cola-how-do-you-want-it.html
Dec 15, 2018
REDUCING INFLAMMATION AND CARDIOVASCULAR EVENTS THROUGH NUTRITION
It is not very often that I quote another article verbatim as the one below. A while ago, I was talking to my colleagues and when I mentioned that Inflammation…
Dec 15, 2018
MY FIRST TRIP ON GEORGIAN AIRWAYS PARIS TO TBILISI TO TEL AVIV
I do not make my travel plans far in advance and this time of the year is dreadful for spontaneous travel. I wanted to go from Miami to Brussels, spend…
Dec 15, 2018
FOOD INSECURITY AND PRE DIABETES .. YET ANOTHER SOCIAL CONNECTION FOR INCREASING INCIDENCE OF DIABETEES
I have always maintained that DIABETES type 2 i a social disease and its ravenous increase world wide is the confirmation of the social influences on its prevalence. I am…
Dec 15, 2018
A BIRTHDAY PARTY AT THE BRISTOW LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL BY THE SEA IN FORT COCHIN KERALA
One becomes aware of the cohesiveness of the staff here at the HOTEL, which has come home to me while I am in Fort Cochin. (to me to include Ernakulum…
Dec 15, 2018
SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA AND THE END OF THE YEAR 2018
After a disastrous New Years Eve party in the home of a neighbour in Havana in 2016, I ha decided I would choose carefully where I wish to be at…
Dec 15, 2018
FIRST TRIP OF 2019 HAS BEGUN THE JOURNEY TO THE EAST
I am waiting to check in to Georgian Airlines counter which does not open for another hour or so at Terminal 2 D, the poor cousin to the other luxurious…