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Well being and Aspiration in the developing world
Edward F. Fischer describes the “good life” as a four-fold journey that entails “having realistic aspirations to direct that journey, sufficient opportunity to realize those aspirations, a sense of dignity and being able to pursue a life with purpos ...
The Red Road of Resistance
In 1994, when I first arrived in Montana to work for Red Thunder Incorporated (RTI), now known as Spirit Mountain Cultural Clan, on the Fort Belknap Native American reservation, environmental racism was a fairly new term. Organ cancer rates among ...
Humanitarian healthcare workers in Chiapas
A recent report to CES workers on navigating the challenges of working in the field and bridging the gap between doctor and patient: http://research.nd.edu/news/64463-humanitarian-healthcare-workers-in-chiapas-mexico/
Companeros en salud
This is my third week with CES as our team learns more about the challenges and opportunities these pasantes face during their one year of service working in the mountain communities of Southern Mexico. Formerly considered a “punishment” for low-ran ...
The Crisis in Care Work: the call for compassionate medicine
A doctor tends to a mortally ill child in Sir Luke Fildes’s 1891 painting ‘The Doctor.’ ART RESOURCE, NY In 1993 I was conducting fieldwork on the Fort Belknap Native American reservation when I met an oncologist from New York City during a sweat ...