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Emily Mendenhall
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Editor-in-Chief of Science Politics, Anthropologist and Professor, Director of STIA, Author of Invisible Illness, Guggenheim Fellow

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Emily Mendenhall is a medical anthropologist and Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Her research considers syndemics, mental health, cultural idioms of distress, health politics and systems, migration and health, flourishing, and complex chronic conditions. She was awarded the George Foster Award for Practicing Medical Anthropology in 2017 from the Society for Medical Anthropology for her work on syndemics. In 2023, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in recognition of her anthropological work on COVID-19. .. more

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In a new cartoon for @sciencepolitics.bsky.social, Elle Wibisono asks: How does El Niño reshape the ocean and, ultimately, the people and communities that depend on the ocean?

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El Niño - Science Politics
How does El Niño reshape the ocean and, ultimately, the people and communities that depend on the ocean?
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Emily Yates-Doerr writes in @sciencepolitics.bsky.social about how the story of a Japanese fishing vessel exposed to radiation made the threat of nuclear contamination feel personal for Americans in 1954. Can we learn a lesson from it today?

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Fallout Stories in a Time of Cruel Heat - Science Politics
The story of a Japanese fishing vessel exposed to radiation made the threat of nuclear contamination feel personal for Americans in 1954. Can we learn a lesson from it today?
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