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.
Cuban doctors fighting ebola: Heroes, not martyrs Milena Recio • October 14, 2014 HAVANA - Several media with worldwide reach have reported on Cuba’s decision to send 165 health professionals…
BLONDE HAIRED GYPSY AND OTHER AMERICAN INDIAN TALES When I showed a photo of a Breton family get together, taken in a village in Brittany in France, to an American…
NUTRITION AMONG NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS This blog is to break your stereotypic view of what the North American Indians consume. When I was preparing to write this blog, I thought…
Ebola in Sierra Leone: battling sadness, fear and disgust on the frontline An MSF psychologist reveals the trauma of dealing with the Ebola outbreak for medics, cleaners and the families…
DO WE NEED OR SHALL I SAY WHY DO WE NEED, PSYCHOLOGISTS AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS CONFRONTING GLOBAL AND CHRONIC ILLNESSES. Alexander Kollie's story: From BBC Saturday 21 September is a day…
TRADITION IN A SUPER MODERN WORLD I would be in a hotel room, trying to catch up on NEWS, usually in English, whether BBC or CNN International, rarely Al Jazeera,…
WHEN EXOTIQUE BECOMES EXTORTION :INDIAN FOOD IN MIAMI Indian Cuisine is an oxymoron, unless of course it is a compilation of numerous cuisines found all over India. Indian cuisine was…
THE BROWN SUGAR DOCTOR TO THE KICKAPOO When I began working with the Indians, I used to introduce myself as the Sugar Doctor, in keeping with the humour of the…
SUPERMODERNITY AND TRADITION IN ONE DAY MIAMI TO THE OMAHA INDIAN RESERVATION. Hey, Doc, said my Omaha Indian teacher, I don't know where Belgium is, but it does not matter,…
HOW DO MOST PEOPLE KEEP FIT? If you are a rickshaw puller in Calcutta or a Bici driver (bicycle taxi) driver in Baracoa, you wouldn't be concerned too much about…
DOES ANTHROPOLOGY HAVE A FUTURE? Yes. Why? The importance of OTHER is more relevant and urgent than ever before. How else are we going to understand, disparate cultural entities, interacting…
I was dropping off my sister at the Miami International Airport. The lovely Cuban woman behind the counter at the Versailles Coffee shop at the Departure area made me a…
It was interesting but not unexpected to read that as many as 75% of all patients and 50% of individuals with chronic illnesses fail to adhere to prescribed medical regimens.…
INTERNET BY CANDLELIGHT No, I don't mean to go back in time, by energizing Internet by Candlelight. During the heyday of alternative lifestyle, they used to talk about Steam Guitar…
Some astounding factors about Exercise in America Comparing the data from 1988-1994 with 2009-2010, the proportion of adults who reported NO PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, increased from 19.1% to 51.7% in women…
One of the first lessons I learned from the American Indians was that the Europeans think Quantitatively while they themselves thought Qualitatively. This way of thinking is so pervasive that…
An interesting study had been published in the journal Obesity by Dr Eric Finkelstein who is with both Duke University and the National University of Singapore combined programme with Duke…
WOULD BIALY BY ANY OTHER NAME TASTE THE SAME? A BIALY IS NOT A BAGEL I was recently engaged in one of our long conversations with my dear friend Dr…
