I can’t help calling attention to >a blog being written by Dr. Fritz François, an internist at NYU School of Medicine, who helped to coordinate a team of physicians, including himself, who are currently helping out in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. In >> Read more
Category: Current Events
Breast Milk As Medicine And Virus: Modern Maternity And HIV/AIDS
Mothers need to be understood as neither the repositories of pure nutrition nor the potentially infectious contaminators of the young, but as materially embedded subjects whose bodies are of this world as everyone’s are.
The Healthcare Debate And Disability Studies
Two related items in the Science Times section of Tuesday’s New York Times (July 26) drew my attention. One was Dr. Abigail Zuger’s book review of Normal at Any Cost by authors Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove and the other >> Read more
Summer Blogging: Traveller's Joy
We are taking a break from our regular essay commentaries until September. In the meantime, there will be occasional short postings, mostly by me (Felice Aull). This image of the plant, Traveller’s Joy, invokes this summer interlude — the pleasure >> Read more