Medicines that Feed Us

Medicines That Feed Us examines the relationship between toxicity and remedy in the face of the intertwined health and environmental crises that are shaping life in the twenty-first century. Through ethnographic work with organizations that use plant-based healing and sustainable farming practices in Tanzania, Stacey A. Langwick asks what it means to heal in a toxic world. Stacey Langwick is a cultural and medical anthropologist. At Cornell, Professor Langwick teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on the anthropology of medicine, the body, postcolonial science, toxicity, critical plant st