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.
Spirituality in Health Care Healing versus Curing Quality vs. Quantity How many vs. how much In treating Cancer, How long is the survival? Rather than how good is the quality…
CUBA has an unenviable record of helping countries when natural disasters hit them. Every one knows about their efforts after the Earthquake and during the Cholera epidemic in Haiti. A…
SPEND A MORNING WITH AN AUSTRALIAN/CUBAN/JEWISH ANTHROPOLOGIST ENDOCRINOLOGIST IN BRUSSELS, BELGIUM The morning was welcomingly fresh; the temperature was a mild 57 F/11 C with no sign of rain. The…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE STRESS IN OLDER MEN A NEW DEFINITION OF OLD This morning after reading an article published from Oregon State University, I conclude:…
A CURE FOR STRESS: LAUGHTER or having Jewish Sense of Humour helps. I am a Doctor/Anthropologist to some of the poorest people in the USA. Because they live in isolated…
COMMUNICATION BARRIERS BETWEEN DOCTORS AND PATIENTS This morning, I received the following text message from an Indian friend of mine, who lives in a remote reservation. She had consulted me…
OBSESSION WITH SUFFERING, ILLNESS AND DISEASE I begin my lectures on Medical Anthropology, discussing how the common metaphors in the society had changed from Religious to Medical. Benjamin Franklin suffered…
Wherever there is oppression, CUBA lends a hand.. And some of the results can be beautiful MUSIC.. that carry that message Africa Beats: Aziza Brahim voices Western Sahara blues 21…
Elisa Herández from the Newspaper Vanguardia MÚZQUIZ.- Le atribuían el don de la adivinación, y Chakoka Anico Manta, jefe espiritual de la tribu Kikapú, falleció la madrugada de ayer, 16…
SHANAH TOVAH TIKKATEVU WELCOME TO THE JEWISH NEW YEAR 5775 This New Year, as I dip the apple slices into the honey, I would remember fondly the various conversations around…
FINDING MEANING IN THE MODERN WORLD On the early days of this New Year 5775, I stared into the tranquil Atlantic Ocean as the sun was setting. Boats were gently…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE It was a pleasant evening. Good Northern Mexican food, good company of friends involved in Pubic Health. The now defunct El Modelo…
In my travels around the world, I have been fortunate to encounter physicians devoted to their craft. It is a pleasure to be in their presence and watch them heal…
In just over three hundred years, and in some cases even less, the American Indians had been forced to change their lifestyle, like no other people on earth. Forced to…
If you are reading airline magazines or on the net browsing, every now and then you come across the ads: How does this neurosurgeon look so good without his scrubs?…
AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE ISRAELI NOBEL LAUREATE, DANIEL KAHNEMAN When I began working with the Indians, it looked like they were intent on educating this “tribal” boy into the ways…
One of my favourite philosophers, Gilles de Leuze, once famously declared: Tell me your desires, I will tell you who you are. In the western minds, who you are, is…
Cuba: un modèle selon l’organisation mondiale de la santé Posté dans Santé juillet 31, 2014 2 commentaires Selon l’organisme onusien, le système de santé à Cuba a valeur d’exemple pour…
