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Aging and the Carbon Imaginary

Consider aging as three overlapping progressions: the accumulation of risk, aging as deterioration, and aging as renewal. Aging disrupts life/non-life distinctions, what Povinelli calls geontology, in that aging is a property of non-living matter, but which extends to living matter through...
May 27, 2025
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This Date in UCSF History: Single Payer Q&A

May 1, 2021
Synapse
Originally published in Synapse on May 6, 1999. Medical student David Schab answers some of the most commonly raised questions...
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goosby

Dr. Goosby: Vaccine Naysayers Will Become 'Yaysayers'

March 28, 2021
Emily Vivian Huang
This is Part Seven of our Q&A with President Biden COVID Task Force advisor, UCSF's Dr. Eric Goosby. Synapse: Some...
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This Date in UCSF History: Students Aim to Improve Heath Care in Iraq

March 21, 2021
Synapse
Originally published on March 26, 2009. When U.S.-led coalition forces invaded Iraq in March of 2003, a social, political and...
Health
goosby

Dr. Goosby 'Not Freaked Out' About Variants

March 21, 2021
Emily Vivian Huang
This is Part Six of our Q&A with President Biden COVID Task Force advisor, UCSF's Dr. Eric Goosby. Synapse: What...
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This Date in UCSF History: Hospitals in Wartime

April 26, 2020
Synapse
Originally published in Synapse on April 22, 1982. UCSF and other Bay Area hospitals participated in a drill of the...
Health

Closing The Cut

January 30, 2020
Hansen Deng
With one hand pressed over the gash above my left eye in an effort to provide some hemostasis, I hurriedly...
Health

This Date in UCSF History: Defending the Right to Choose

November 14, 2019
Synapse
Originally published in Synapse on Nov. 21, 1996. Before 1973, the year Roe vs. Wade guaranteed women the right to...
Health

Why Global Health?

October 31, 2019
Mana Anvar
In the upcoming year, you will be walking alongside my journey and observing the world of diverse disciplines and passions...
Health
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The Most Beautiful Place (And You’re Invited)

March 18, 2019
Iva Petrovchich
“The purpose of a [clinician] or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of a...
Health
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