Hi. Bonjour. 你们好.
I’m a medical anthropologist and writer, usually of nonfiction, mostly about topics in public health and medicine. I’m also an Associate Professor of Science & Technology Studies at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.
I’m the author of Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies In a Changing World (Random House 2023), the story of the global rise in allergies over the last 200 years.
My next book is about aging. I’m taking a deep dive into the long cultural and scientific histories of longevity and anti-aging. We often collapse the two, but we shouldn’t. The new regime of anti-aging turns out to be retrenching older forms of ageism and harming us all as we age – turning aging into a mark of personal failure. The regime of longevity, on the other hand, might hold the key not only to a longer life, but to a happier and more joyful one. And I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a better bet to me.
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