Field notes from a physician-anthropologist exploring healing, food, travel, Indigenous communities, and the human side of medicine.
The old blog already has the soul: medicine, anthropology, travel, food, friendship, Indigenous health, and reflection. This staging site turns that archive into a calm, searchable, photo-first home.
A CGM, Artificial Intelligence, and the Limits of Cultural Understanding For the past week, I have been wearing a continuous glucose monitor, a device largely designed and marketed for the United States. First, the…
Suriname is a small country on the northern coast of South America, bordered by Guyana to the west, French Guiana to the east, and Brazil to the south. Its population of around 600,000 is…
Healing and curing are often used as if they were interchangeable, yet they arise from very different philosophical traditions. In Western biomedicine, curing usually means the elimination or control of disease through measurable intervention:…
V1 will migrate 2,248 Blogger posts from 2007–2026, preserving dates and old URLs wherever possible.