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In her new book, Danish poet Olga Ravn writes with open love, pity, and compassion for her strange yet familiar creations.
Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today’s regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.
Inspired by the rediscovery of Shackleton’s HMS Endurance, we revisit two centuries of lessons in leadership from getting trapped in Antarctica’s Weddell Sea.
Younger voices are using technology to respond to the needs of marginalized communities and nurture Black healing and liberation.
Decades of biological research haven’t improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.
Pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos sought to redeem the field from its methodological fragmentation and colonial legacies.
Until COVID-19, tuberculosis killed more people each year than any other infectious disease. Its rising toll is increasingly fueled by mass incarceration.
To meet the challenge of enduring spread in the years to come, we must prioritize primary care and community health over the profit-driven status quo.
Narrative medicine claims to champion the experience of patients—but it does so by requiring that the sick “earn” their care by telling a redemptive tale about what is wrong with them.
Sunlight-friendly architecture could heat and illuminate buildings without expending any electricity.
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Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT and researcher on the anthropology of health and environment.
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