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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…
The widely quoted saying, "Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is not here, pay attention to today," is a modern summary of Buddhist teachings on mindfulness , heavily popularized by contemporary teachers…
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…
A French Lunch - A Nutrition Lesson for the USA, UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand For a complex mix of anthropological, historical, and geopolitical reasons, English-speaking countries and their…
There’s something quietly radical about stepping out of the noise. Not escaping it entirely-Miami does not permit such illusions-but placing a gentle distance between oneself and its glitter, its urgency,…
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…
Epigraph “I am nothing. I shall always be nothing. I cannot wish to be anything. Aside from that, I carry within me all the dreams of the world.” - Fernando…
Today, in the brief and indifferent cadence of BBC news, I read of the death of Raghu Rai . And yet, what stirred in me was not sorrow, but a…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRMcimuuk0Q. In this talk, de Botton challenges the deeply ingrained romantic belief that successful relationships depend on finding the “right person.” Instead, he argues that this idea is a cultural…
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…
“To travel is to feel.” - Fernando Pessoa I went to Pinecrest today, though it no longer exists. Not in the way that towns exist-with a centre, a rhythm, a…