BY MAX GOLDBERG St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, CA. Source: Wikimedia Commons While primary care physicians play a pivotal role in determining levels of disability benefits in the United States, their perspectives are largely ignored in both media accounts and scholarly examinations of national and state-level disability benefits. Drawing jointly from interviews I conducted with … Continue reading United States: Hippocratic Loyalties and Unwilling Judges
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Ghana: Redefining Ability – Lessons Learned from Survivors of Disabilities
BY ELLIE DUPLER.Photography by Ellie Dupler. Yefreme Ellie. Mefiri America. My introduction in broken Twi echoed over the buzz of mosquitos and the cries of babies suffering from conjunctivitis worse than most western health workers could ever imagine. Despite the pain and blindness the 450 people sitting before me in the sweltering church were enduring, … Continue reading Ghana: Redefining Ability – Lessons Learned from Survivors of Disabilities