Inquisition

Many of the significant health disparities and inequities Hispanic communities in the United States face are tied to a long history of health injustice in the Hispanic world.The health landscape of early modern Hispanic societies, particularly from the late 15th to 18th centuries, was a complex interplay between professional and nonprofessional providers shaping health care. The convergence of Indigenous, African and European practices, both in Spain and the Americas, affected how clinicians treated their patients.This…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Many of the significant health disparities and inequities Hispanic communities in the United States face are tied to a long history of health injustice in the Hispanic world. The health landscape of early modern Hispanic societies, particularly from the late 15th to 18th centuries, was a complex interplay between…

It is ok not to expect the Spanish Inquisition For the longest time, people have criticized video games for deriving too much from Hollywood. It’s true. We know Solid Snake’s design from the original Metal Gear is a copy-pasted Kyle Reese from Terminator. We also know Solid Snake’s look from MGS 2 is Snake Plissken from Escape From New York. Still, the tides are changing. Recent years have provided a library of instances of Hollywood taking a lot of inspiration from video games — even when it makes zero sense. Twitter…

Here is a vivid, troubling documentary that reconstructs how Chinese activists hijacked the airwaves of state TV in the northeastern city of Changchun in March 2002. The group were followers of a banned spiritual practice called Falun Gong, labelled an “evil cult” by the ruling Communist party.Watching archive footage of a Falun Gong gathering, it’s hard to see what all the fuss was about: hundreds of followers in a public square silently practising sequences of gentle movements; it looks like a tai chi class. But Falun…