The Old Crow (Gwitchin) women’s name is Mrs. Irene Kendell…She was married to the local methodist minister for years… She was 106 years old at the time (July,August, September 1982)…She died ...
Shoklo Malaria Research Unit – Mawker Thei Clinic on the banks of the Moi River. Zo Zo is 26 years old and was brought in my his father from a village across the river. The plasmodium parasites have impaired ...
The San: The first leg of this project took me to Botswana where I lived with Nanke, a San or Bushman women, on the edge of the Kalahari Desert, for 2 months. I pitched my tent beside her tin shack. The Botswana ...
“Sweat runs off the faces of the two boys, 17 and 20 years old, who crouch in the front trench with us. After each shell hits they strain their eyes to see through the dust, and over the logs piled in front of the ...
There is an explosion, very close. It comes from the furor in the middle of the road. Dr. Chris Giannou is the first to recognize the sharp crack and acrid smell of a detonated cordite grenade. When it explodes, he ...
Seeing Shatila, gives me a whole new perspective on what I thought about Somalia being the most brutal war I’d seen, or Angolans the most starved, Afghans the most displaced, S. African’s the most ...
On 6 June 1982, the Israeli army invaded Lebanon, in reaction to the attempted assassination of the Israeli ambassador Argov in London on June 4. On the same day, the Israeli secret services attributed the attempted ...
The following are excerpts from Fieldnotes from Shatila. Last year I received an email from Dr. Eyad El Sarraj, who I had met and stayed with in Gaza, in 1996, where I did a story on posttraumatic stress syndrome ...
Symptoms of trauma are defense mechanisms against unbearable circumstances and events. They are also signs that the mind is healthy. The problems start after the circumstances are over and the defense mechanisms ...
Symptoms of trauma are defense mechanisms against unbearable circumstances and events. They are also signs that the mind is healthy. The problems start after the circumstances are over and the defense mechanisms ...