Can Novels Save Lives? When Health, Development and Stories Collide
Coney Island freak shows, Belle Époque Egypt and Maori tattoo parlors in Victorian Sydney were all featured in my thesis project at Pratt Institute for my undergraduate writing degree. As a writer living in Brooklyn, I thought I’d write the Great German-American novel before I graduated. But writing a terrible novel at age 21 didn’t […]
Innovating toward the end of malaria: What actually works?
Cross-posted from MakingMalariaHistory.org Malaria evolved along with humans over 60,000 years ago and has plagued and killed people ever since. For just as long, humans have been looking for ways to prevent infection and eliminate the disease. Tools and knowledge have evolved to combat malaria in the past several hundred years: quinine’s protective properties against […]