While I was in the throes of writing Empire of Madness, a friend recommended I read Tastes Like War by Grace Cho. I picked it up and couldn’t stop until I was finished. This gorgeous memoir—an exploration of food, memory, mourning, war, and schizophrenia—changed the way I think about mental health.

Thanks for all your help with this project @drdrtsai.bsky.social !

First book review of Empire of Madness is in from Kirkus:

“An ambitious take on the diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues viewed through a cross-cultural lens.”

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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I wrote this essay at the end of the first Trump presidency. It feels even more urgent today than it did back then.

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I’ll be talking about my book, Empire of Madness, in the UMaine philosophy department today at 4pm. Join if you can!

Reading them and writing them.

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Over lifetime, each additional year of union membership reduces the odds of mortality by 1.5%. Effects primarily occur between ages of 41 and 67.

Nice work @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social

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I’m in good company now @seyeabimbola.bsky.social

I missed this when it appeared last week. As @zekefaux.bsky.social writes, Trump's cryptocurrency "isn't very appealing as an investment.... but it's a good way to send money to the Trumps." So in case you were hoping to buy some influence...

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“Unfair knowledge practices easily beset our efforts to achieve health equity within & between countries. Enacted by people from a distance & from a position of power…”

Please read our realist synthesis using pose & gaze to make sense of epistemic injustice.

Here: academic.oup.com/heapol/artic...

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I’d say I’m more sitting on the front porch 😀

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Can’t wait, Seye!

I'm happy to announce that my book, "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health", is now out!

You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...

The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...

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This is *excellent*

To mark the centenary of James Baldwin, I wrote a short essay for @TheLancet. On what he's taught me about responding to pushback.

To beware of "strategic ignorance" and "the imaginary line of selective judgment".

James Baldwin: ignorance, power, justice - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...