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Just in time for holiday feasting, pumpkin spice lattes and New Year’s resolutions: Toni Yancey’s approach to fitness, Instant Recess, was the focus of Jane Brody’s recent New York Times article on physical activity and health. As Yancey notes, everyone wants to be healthier and fitter (I know, come every January 1, I am optimistically [more...]  Saying that Dr. Paul Farmer is a busy guy would be an understatement. In this live interview from the 2010 Miami International Book Fair, Farmer talks about his “day job” as a med school professor/attending physician as well as his on-going, collaborative efforts to fight curable diseases in the world’s most neglected spots. He answers viewers’ [more...] Toni Yancey’s Instant Recess: Building a Fit Nation 10 Minutes at a Time is the subject of our latest UC Press Podcast. In this episode, Dr. Yancey addresses some cultural and gender issues surrounding exercise, and explains why physical activity has been engineered out of many peoples’ daily routines. Yancey offers guidelines for how to [more...] Instant Recess author Toni Yancey appeared on the Tavis Smiley program to discuss how our country’s culture of inactivity affects everything from worker productivity to childhood brain development to the ratio of girls to boys in college. Yancey argues that by incorporating at least 10 minutes of physical activity into daily routines, decision makers will [more...] Out of the tens of millions of pilgrims who have sought healing at Lourdes since the 19th century, there have been 66 official miracles, says Robert Scott in this UC Press podcast. However, the number of people who report that their suffering vanished after visiting the site is astronomically higher. Scott finds that for many, appealing [more...] Medical anthropologist Philippe Bourgois and photographer and graduate student Jeff Schonberg spent 12 years among homeless heroin users on the streets of San Francisco, embedded in a world that is usually invisible to outsiders. This world exists at the seams of the city, under freeways, in vacant lots and alleys, largely unseen by passersby. In their [more...] Janet Poppendieck On Friday, First Lady Michelle Obama hosted 500 chefs from all over the country on the White House lawn for the Chefs Move to Schools program, part of her larger campaign to end childhood obesity. The participating chefs will each work with a local school to help raise awareness about nutrition and healthy [more...] Dr. Paul Farmer “People sometimes refer to [Dr. Paul Farmer] as a hero, saint, madman, or genius….but the essential thing about him is that he listens to his patients”, writes Haun Saussy, editor of Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader, in his introduction. In this UC Press podcast, Saussy and Farmer speak to [more...] Dr. Paul Farmer. Photo by Behna Gardner. When he was writing Mountains Beyond Mountains, his book about Dr. Paul Farmer’s work with Partners in Health, Tracy Kidder traveled with Farmer as he treated patients in Boston and in some of the poorest parts of Haiti, Peru, and Russia. In his foreword to Partner to the [more...] For those who were planning to attend the Partner to the Poor: Paul Farmer in Conversation event in San Francisco tonight, we are sorry to announce that it has been canceled. Unfortunately, due to the grounding of flights across Europe because of the volcanic eruption in Iceland, Dr. Farmer will not be able to [more...] |
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