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Psychosocial Stress, Inflammation, and Atherosclerosis: An Anthropological Reflection That most feared of outcomes— the heart attack , or acute myocardial infarction (AMI)—rarely occurs out of the blue. From a biomedical…
The River Beneath the Numbers Psychosocial Stress, Inflammation, and the Anthropology of Disease Still Water / Hidden Flow The heart appears still—like water in the Everglades. But beneath, unseen currents…
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment; Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.” — Rumi I have spent much of my professional life moving between worlds—London, Melbourne, Miami, and the…
What Did the Medicine Man Say? “Humility is not thinking less of oneself; it is thinking of oneself less.” — Ancient teaching often repeated among Indigenous elders It took me…
LIFE IS FULL OF UNEXPECTED PLEASURES Today was one such .. not that i did any thing more special than my usual work with the Indigenous people .. but a…
Spiritual Materialism: Cross-Tradition Comparison Handout Core Question Across Traditions Is spirituality being used to dissolve the ego—or to sanctify it? 1. Tibetan Buddhism Key voice: Chögyam Trungpa Risk Turning meditation,…
Spiritual materialism is a concept introduced and most clearly articulated by the Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa , especially in his book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism . At its core,…
Colours Before Dawn: Notes from a Medico-Anthropologist In Japanese, the names of colours do not merely describe a spectrum. They encode time , emotion , and transition —states of being…
So much has changed in the span of days. Of all that unfolds around me, the one realm still within my command is my own mind—my response, my interior weather.…
AHA: Few Americans With Diabetes Meet Heart Targets — Vast majority of patients missing the mark on CVD risk reduction MED PAGE TODAY 10 January 2022 AHA advice for diabetes…
I am not a fan of watching sports on TV but I like to be abreast of what is happening, especially from an anthropological point of view. When we were…
The sentence: Mission oriented rather than mercenary approach and in the end Missionary approach wins.. is from Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com I will tell you about a personal…