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.
Apart from getting used to, Where are you from? Originally?, style of questioning, I am confronted with yet another common question, Are your people naturally smart? No, I say emphatically,…
There are words you hear as a child or adolescent which stays in your memory. I remember, a shaliach from Israel saying: Theodor Herzl said: Once we achieve our dream…
Why medical anthropology matters Guest editorial by Cecil Helman Cecil Helman was Professor of Medical Anthropology at Brunel University. He was awarded the 2005 Lucy Mair Medal for Applied Anthropology.…
We are in social isolation and the rhythm of life has changed. One of the advantages has been the time that has become available to read Scientific and Anthropological journals.…
She was only 28 from the Navajo Nation in Arizona, USA. Her partner, a police officer for the tribe, tested positive. She stayed at home to look after him. Her…
FROM MONOCLE 2 MAY 2020 OUTPOST NEWS / ST KITTS AND NEVIS Life and breath The Caribbean island of St Kitts – formally known as St Christopher – was the…
I remember that day clearly, at a clinic for indigenous people. The doctor to whom I was speaking was a Pakistani, who was working in that remote location, fulfilling requirements…
Aspirin alleviates endothelial gap junction dysfunction through inhibition of NLRP3 inflammasome activation in LPS-induced vascular injury Xing Zhou , a Yanjiao Wu , a Lifeng Ye , a Yunting Wang…
Isaac et Nora, deux enfants quimpérois, font fondre le web avec leur reprise d'une chanson cubaine Le succès de leur reprise a ainsi largement dépassé les frontières de la Bretagne,…
Ephraim Kishon was an Israeli satirist and humorist. He was Hungarian born and a survivor of concentration camps and when he arrived in Israel, the newly integrated nation of hundred…
The Effect of Coconut Oil Consumption on Cardiovascular Risk Factors A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Clinical Trials When I first saw this article title, I thought of my Polynesian…
An influential Guru in India always reminds his flock: When you wake up, be grateful that another day is waiting for you. In the Yogic teaching, along with any philosophical…
It was a clear morning. I was running a little late, driving from the house where I stay, while I am in the Reservation of the Indians. I was there…
MONOCLE is one of my favourite magazines and they send a daily sniff of their diverse interests around the world. It is truly international in that you get an anthropological…
During these days of tranquility and silence, I have been able to experience solitude and emotions in their rawest form. Emotions so raw and tender that tears flow. While cities…
Today Mother’s Day is celebrated in Cuba, along with many other countries in this hemisphere and elsewhere. If you ask a Cuba, what is the most precious thing in their…
When my association with the indigenous people began, I wanted to learn why they are being marginalized, disliked and accused by people who came to their lands centuries later. Who…
There has been a disproportionate number of deaths from this virus, Covid-19, in France in 2020. If you look at the map, you would see a disproportionate number of infections…
