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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: Intersex Dilemma

March 9, 2019
Originally published in Synapse - The UCSF student newspaper March 11, 1999 . Cheryl Chase's clitoris was surgically removed when...
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Dental Doc Is Nonsense

February 18, 2019
Priyanka Srivastava
If you’re in the dental profession, you’ve probably heard about a documentary called “Root Cause,” which was released on Netflix...
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Envisioning Trans Care

February 2, 2019
Ninad Bhat
Listen to your patients. Health sciences students at UCSF are told repeatedly that this is key to practicing safe and...
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Medicine For Migration: A Call for Political Advocacy in Healthcare

January 18, 2019
Francesco Sergi
Elodia Caballero
On December 3rd, while students and physicians struggled to find seats for a teach-in led by Dr. Tung Nguyen at...
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Humans of UCSF: Running For Diabetes

November 28, 2018
PhotoClub at UCSF
“Hailing from France, I started as a Postdoc at UCSF 18 years ago. I now work at the Diabetes Center...
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This Date In UCSF History: Health care Sandinista-style

October 15, 2018
Originally published on Oct. 18, 1982 in Synapse – UCSF Student Voices. On Oct. 1 to 5, 200 North American...
Health

Breaking Drug Dependency

April 14, 2018
Nicholas Gentry
For decades, the war on drugs has been a staple of American federal policy intended to combat substance abuse. Yet...
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This Date in UCSF History: Principles of New Medicine

April 10, 2018
[Originally published in Synapse - The UCSF student newspaper, April 25, 1975] A woman with a large skin tumor had...
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Self Care Is Key

October 5, 2017
Troy Santos
Ironically, the time we spend training to help people and advance science cuts into the time we could spend with...
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