“Passing with Pills: Redefining Performance in the Pharmaceuticalized University” is a very thoughtful and thought provoking ethnographic look in the mirror. Tazin Karim of Michigan State University did an excellent job applying a critical, medical anthropological lens to academia and the pressures of the rite of passage in America referred to as college. When discussing the exportation/globalization ofContinue reading “Performance Enhancing Drugs – College Edition”
Tag Archives: Social Responsibility
Gunman Suicide – A Social Illness
The media storm following the Newton school shooting has left our nation with heavy hearts and that unanswerable question “but why…?” The shooting occurred the day left Dallas heading home for Arkansas to spend my Christmas break with my family. These incidents which have become all too frequent always leave me initially dumbfounded, but asContinue reading “Gunman Suicide – A Social Illness”
Politics and Wikipedia
Wikipedia is currently in fundraiser mode. It reminds of the PBS phone-a-thons of my childhood. But it also reminds me of an interesting component people frequently neglect when discussing social programs and taxes in relation to institutions seen as a “public good.” In the debate over who does a better job of address the needsContinue reading “Politics and Wikipedia”
Occupying the Future
A Vision of Students Today This video is a little old, in internet terms at least. It came out in 2007 while I was still in undergrad. The video was made before college graduates of class of 2009 entered “the real world” to find by in large there was no place for them. Here’s anContinue reading “Occupying the Future”
Sydney Yeager 