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Aging Through the Lens of Culture: How Societies Shape the Way We Age

Manjula KamathJanuary 20, 2025January 15, 2025

As humans, one thing binds us universally: we age. Yet societies and cultures perceive aging in profoundly different ways, shaping how we treat older individuals and view our own aging...

The Social Implications of Pandemics

Tiffany KongOctober 5, 2020October 4, 2020

In response to the emergence of the novel SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent for COVID-19, the province of Ontario entered a state of emergency on March 17th, 2020. Social distancing, defined...

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The Evolution of Diet

Spencer ZengApril 13, 2017April 13, 2017

Nutrition plays an important role in so-called “diseases of affluence” such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease - now epidemic in developed countries. Widespread prevalence of these diseases of affluence...

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What’s the Beef with GMOs?

Yoojin ChoiApril 13, 2017January 31, 2018

Since their emergence in the 1970s, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been a source of discord between scientists, policy makers, and the public with regards to their safety and regulation....

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Syndemic Theory and Gay Men’s Health

Yoojin ChoiJanuary 27, 2017January 27, 2017

The term syndemic was first developed in the 1990s by medical anthropologist Merrill Singer to describe the co-occurrence of multiple epidemics and their tendency to mutually reinforce the negative outcomes...

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Aging Through the Lens of Culture: How Societies Shape the Way We Age

The Social Implications of Pandemics

The Evolution of Diet

What’s the Beef with GMOs?

Syndemic Theory and Gay Men’s Health

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