May 15, 2012
DO JOGGERS LIVE A LONGER HAPPIER LIFE?
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE IS JOGGING GOOD FOR YOU? I remember visiting a group of Indians who lived along the Canon del Cobre or Copper Canyon…
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.
May 15, 2012
WHEN IS SUGAR NOT SUGAR…IN INDONESIA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE CORN SUGAR, I was told, when presented with an attractive little package, in Bogor, Indonesia. Sugar brings to our mind the waving…
May 15, 2012
OBESITY AS A SOCIAL ILLNESS
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE OBESITY AND DIABETES AS SOCIAL ILLNESSES In 2004, at a conference, I chose to call my presentation: Obesity as a Social Illness.…
May 15, 2012
NESPRESSO WHAT ELSE IN …
As I entered the offices of my friend in Sentul City in Indonesia, I was happy to see a Nespresso machine nestled among the medals and trophies.. I chose an…
May 15, 2012
THE HUMBLE MAN OF BOGOR
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE UNEXPECTED PLEASURES OF TRAVEL THE HUMBLE MAN OF BOGOR 2 May 2012 the flight from Singapore touched down at Spoekarno-Hatta International Airport…
Apr 15, 2012
Noite de Saudade
A NIGHT FULL OF SAUDADE When did that word enter my vocabulary? Saudade.. Long before Cesaria Evora sang Sodade in 1994. An unbridled sensation of nostalgia, mixed with a tenderness…
Apr 15, 2012
Omar Khayyam, The Sky and South Dakota
That inverted Bowl we call The Sky; Whereunder crawling coop’d we live and die. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam In less than 24 hours, I have gone from one part…
Apr 15, 2012
WELCOME TO OMAHA AND SOME DEAR FRIENDS
I left home, in Paris at 0610 on a Monday and arrived at the hotel near the airport in Omaha at 12 10 am, ie 25 hours later.. Most people…
Apr 15, 2012
DIABETES CARE WITHOUT BORDERS: MOPOTSYO.ORG OF CAMBODIA
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…
Mar 15, 2012
19 March 2012 Toulouse, France and I am suddenly so alone
During this day of immense sadness, what comes to my mind is a poem by Pablo Neruda Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE “It was half past eleven…
Mar 15, 2012
RELATIONSHIP MORE IMPORTANT THAN TECHNOLOGY
RELATIONSHIP MORE IMPORTANT THAN TECHNOLOGY WHEN IT COMES TO CARING FOR PATIENTS: A GOOD LESSON FOR THE DEVELOPING WORLD When I try to talk to colleagues in the developing world…
Mar 15, 2012
THE BOOKSELLER OF MOGADOR
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE BOOKSELLER OF MOGADOR Until 1956, when Morocco became independent of France, the popular seaside town of Essaouira (very popular with Americans…
Feb 15, 2012
Round the World Endocrinogist Medical Anthropologist
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…
Feb 15, 2012
I AM HAPPY TO BE A PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST TO NATIVE AMERICANS
CHOOSE A CAREER TO SUIT YOUR PERSONALITY, NOT YOUR INCOME Thank God for the Indians (Los Indios de America) I had done particularly well in the latter years of my…
Feb 15, 2012
MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND YOGA
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:…
Feb 15, 2012
Adieu Royaume udu Cambodge
what a lovely day this has been.. the thunder has arrived, they probably want to say good bye.. I called Kuching to say good bye to some friends there ...…
Feb 15, 2012
PEER TO PEER CARE OF DIABETES : the excellence in Cambodia
A lot of credit must go to Maurits for his untiring work to show that Type 2 Diabetes can be taken care of at the point of contact between the…
Feb 15, 2012
The Sweet Peasures of Travel: Rashid and Co at Hilton Kuching
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Coming to Kuching in Sarawak, Borneo is an anthropologist’s dream. Physical characteristics of the people betray their isolated and historical existence of…