By Rebecca Irons Rebecca Skloot’s 2010 book “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” is one that many of us may be familiar with. An exploration of the human story behind the HeLa cells, the book deals with more than simply an historical account of biomedical research; it is essentially a book about race, bioethics, and…
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Female Tristeza in Santa Cruz La Laguna, Guatemala: How Sadness Maps Onto Depression
By Elizabeth Markowitz “As always, as people, there are problems … perhaps they happen [as depression] but one does not know the form…” – Tzununá woman How does major depressive disorder exist in a society lacking a word for it? I studied this question through the lens of the female experience of tristeza (sadness) in…