Racism in/and Medicine
In The Pain Gap: Why Doctors Offer Less Relief to Black Patients (2016, The Daily Beast), Keith Wailoo (Princeton professor in History and Public Affairs) discusses how the treatment of…
In The Pain Gap: Why Doctors Offer Less Relief to Black Patients (2016, The Daily Beast), Keith Wailoo (Princeton professor in History and Public Affairs) discusses how the treatment of…
Sidney Mintz’ classic work on sugar illustrated how “following the thing” can tell us about deeper cultural and political issues. Now, Anthropologist Andrea Muehlebach’s recent work “finds water…
I have been hearing a lot about ‘disrupters’ and ‘innovators’ in tech and marketing industries lately, and something about that language has always irked me. Lee Vinsel (an…
The Canadian government’s program of cultural genocide in residential schools included the erasure of aboriginal languages. In Undoing Linguicide (an hour long audio documentary for CBC Radio’s Ideas…
Alongside all of the excitement and fanfare that accompanied the recent start to the 2016 MLB season (go Jays!), seeing sportscasters (and twitter users) discuss the team in…
8 Awesome Anthropologists Advancing Public Outreach (2016, Forbes) What’s not to love about this headline?! Kristina Killgrove lists off 8 awesome (women) anthropologists whose blogs and work (ran…