“Health is made at home, hospitals are for repairs.” Nigel Crisp argues that the “creation of health” is integral to achieve human flourishing — the Aristotelian concept of people living up to their full potential. Creating health is not the same as preventing disease; it is doing activities with health benefits, like gardening, swimming, and singing. He posits that health creation will not be taking place in hospitals, but within communities, institutions, and families. Read full article here
Oddities
The Curious Case of the Ancient Brain
In 2008, archaeologists examining the University of York discovered something strange: the decapitated head of an Iron Age man and his very shrivelled but very much intact brain. How a centuries-old brain was preserved is still unknown, but research suggests that it could have been because of brain diseases like dementia. The Yorkshire man’s brain’s proteins were bunched up together, much like how dementia causes brain proteins to bunch up into plaques. This bunching up, or aggregation, could continue even after death, turning regions of the brain into hard masses. Read full article here
Merv
September 30, 2022
