Anthropology

  • Read more: From bioethics to medical anthropology to humanities and back: A year in review
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    From bioethics to medical anthropology to humanities and back: A year in review

    By Yusuf Lenfest I thought I would take this opportunity to reflect on the past year, where I will be in the future, and how the student fellowship has impacted me. I still hope to contribute to the Bill of Health blog going forward, but as my last official post as a Petrie-Flom Student Fellow,…

  • Read more: Religion, Health, and Medicine: the Dialectic of Embedded Social Systems
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    Religion, Health, and Medicine: the Dialectic of Embedded Social Systems

    By Yusuf Lenfest The philosopher in me understands that there are universal principles in logic, mathematics, and in basic scientific tenets such as the law of gravity. Be that as it may, the historian in me recognizes that we inherit epistemologies and ways of thinking from those before us, and from our own historical and…