Screenshot of The Body Horrors blog
We took a quick look a few days ago at Somatosphere, a Medical Anthropology blog, and it brought to mind another interesting, if slightly queasy-making, site called Body Horrors.
This site, written by Rebecca Kreston, “aims to explore the intersection of infectious diseases, the human body, public health and anthropology. I hope to look at the interaction of infectious diseases and cultural/social behaviors. The focus will primarily be on microbiological organisms and parasitic helminths.”
It’s a serious site written by a serious scholar, but with a light touch, or as light a touch as its morbid interests allow. Kreston doesn’t seem to be an Anthropologist by training, but she has a welcome openness to considering the culturally specific, and sensitive, factors which inform infectious disease.
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