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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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…
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2018/12/sugar-in-coca-cola-how-do-you-want-it.html
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I cannot remember when I first heard about Cheng HO, the greatest navigator who travelled the realms of the Ming dynasty over the course of many journeys, as far as…
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My first flight with Qatar Airways was in February 2014, I think: IAH DOH CGK DOH BRU. Since then I have made every attempt to fly QR Qatar Airways when…
0 0 1 319 1821 Carl T. Curtis Health and Education 15 4 2136 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE 2018 has been a good year for…
