S. Lochlann Jain is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University and the author of Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us (2013).
S. Lochlann Jain
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Binomial Nomenclature
The series Binomial Nomenclature began inauspiciously at a meeting a few years ago, when I scribbled a likeness of a colleague’s rather perfect nose on my printed conference agenda. I labeled it “Roman nose,” and then added the meta-label “Kinds of Noses.” Paying more attention to the faces around me than to the words in […]
The History of Secrets
Family Secrets by Deborah Cohen injects the marrow back into two centuries of skeletons locked away in household closets. A leading historian of modern Britain and Europe, Cohen has put together a rollicking read through the hidden land of cultural morality and its fundamental institution, the family. A son who prefers lipstick to lip balm […]
