By Jeremy Akers, Danny Mays, Marc Siegel, MD, Visiting Focus Bloggers This is the first in a series of posts on cholera and its impact on Haiti. The first post is a discussion of the disease itself, and serves as an examination of medical and epidemiological factors that enabled cholera to be carried by Nepalese… Continue reading Cholera: The Epidemic Power of Vibrio cholerae
Tag: International Development
Images and “Saving”
By Scott Freeman, Visiting Scholar As an anthropologist, and one that focuses on Haiti, it is imperative to think and reflect on representation: how we represent those we work with, and to what end. These representations are not some sort of post-modern exercise in self absorption (though in academia, anything can become an exercise of self… Continue reading Images and “Saving”
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