Xylocopa
Tales of a migrant worker in the global economy
Patrick Hahn
- Location
- Cape Coast, Ghana
- Birthday
- June 07
- Bio
- All photos by the author are copyright of Patrick D Hahn. All rights reserved. To the best of my knowledge, all other photos and illustrations used here are in the public domain or are used with the permission of the copyright owner. If you believe a photo of yours has been used here without your permission, please email the author of this blog.
MY RECENT POSTS
- The flying fish of Nzema
January 12, 2012 06:38AM - News flash: exercise burns fat
January 27, 2012 10:16AM - The sea turtles of Nzema
January 12, 2012 03:51AM - Drugging them into submission
Part 2
February 03, 2012 01:10AM - In search of Aboatia Part 1
January 12, 2012 03:38AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “I am glad you and your
daughter have reconciled. And
what a
beautiful baby!”
4:00PM - “It's your decision. But
you will be missed.”
3:58PM - “I got three EP's my
first three months here. Never
again.
They knew they had me
h…”
3:52PM - “We don't mourn what we
lost so much as what we never
had.
I am
sorry.”
February 14, 2012 01:48AM - “Next week: we return to
Ankasa Rain Forest in search
of
Aboatia.”
February 13, 2012 08:28AM
Patrick Hahn's Links
- The astonishing rise of mental illness in America
- Part 6: Why psych meds are not "like insulin for diabetes" continued
- Part 5: Why psych meds are not "like insulin for diabetes"
- Part 4: A manufactured epidemic
- Part 3: An invented disorder
- Part 2
- Part 1
- Big fat lies
- Part 10: Chunky monkeys
- Part 9
- Part 8
- Part 7
- Part 6
- Part 5
- Part 4
- Part 3
- Part 2
- Part 1
- Is screening for cancer a giant con job?
- Part 10
- Part 9
- Part 8
- Part 7
- Part 6
- Part 5
- Part 4
- Part 3
- Part 2
- Part 1
- The Gold Coast
- The crocodiles of Egyambra
- The elephants of Molé National Park
- The Castle of Saint George at Elmina
- The Holy Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia
- Gondar
- Harar
- The Castle of Saint George at Elmina
- Imrahana Christos
- Laibela
- Debra Zion
- Tana Kirkos
- The Church of Saint Mary at Axum
- The Cradle of Humanity
- Only in Ethiopia
- Ethiopian cuisine
- The Red Terror Museum in Addis Ababa
- Axum
- Trampled Rose: giving Ethiopian women a second chance
- The diagnosis
- The Land of Burnt Faces
- The Cradle of Humanity
- The Medical-Industrial Complex
- The Vampire of the Caribbean
- One of the deadliest prescription drugs ever
- News flash: public playgrounds harbor germs
- Are statin drugs the new thalidomide?
- Listening to Peter Kramer
- Chantix: Killing more than just your desire to smoke
- Chantix: For people who are dying to quit smoking UPDATED
- GlaxoSmithKline: making a killing
- Chantix: is suicide an "expected event?"
- Exploding the antidepressant myth
- Kermit Gosnell update
- A fat-headed idea
- Throughput in the psychiatrist's office
- Doctor Kermit Gosnell's Little Shop of Horrors
- In memory of David Reimer
- The House of Frankenstein
- Time to re-think our strategy in the War On Cancer
- Trampled Rose: giving Ethiopian women a second chance
- Man is more than a dildo
- The diagnosis
- I hope he fails
- President Obama, healthcare reform, and Animal Farm
- Animal experimentation and the shining city on the sea
- The checkup
- Health care, breast cancer, and "Benefits-eligible" employees
- "Death panels," prostate cancer, and health care rationing
- Letter from physicians to the American people and my reply
- Pulling the plug on Grandma
- They're as mad as heck and they're not gonna take it anymore
- The most important thing to remember about health care
- Review of "Our Daily Meds" by Melody Peterson
- Time to pull the plug on employer-based health insurance
- A depressing proposal
- The health care industry tips its hand
- Has medicine become the modern-day substitute for religion? Part 2
- Should doctors kill? Part 3
- Remembering Doctor Heller
- Physician, heal thyself
- Should doctors kill? Part 2 EDITOR'S PICK
- On driving a spike through a child's eye sockets
- Has medicine become the modern-day substitute for religion?
- Free market versus "socialized medicine"= A false choice
- Blaming the uninsured EDITOR'S PICK
- A tepid defense of animal experimentation
- Why do people say heart transplants "save lives?" UPDATED
- The perils of genetic engineering
- Should doctors kill?
- Vassals of the Medical-Industrial Complex
- The War On Drugs
- Part 5: Jose Guerena shooting update
- Part 4
- Part 3
- Part 2
- Part 1
- The Nutritional-Industrial Complex
- Myplate: should the government be telling us what to eat?
- Big surprise: Heart Attack Grill spokesman dies at 29
- Eat your vegetables -- or else! UPDATED
- Fresh takes up where Food Inc. leaves off
- Food Inc. pulls back the veil
- High-fructose corn syrup and highly misleading advertising
- Michael Pollan's subversive proposal Part 2
- Michael Pollan's subversive proposal: Eat food
- War On Food EDITOR'S PICK
- Personal reminiscences
- The lizards of Echo Canyon Park
- The greatest summertime song EVER
- Remembering Mom UPDATED FOR MOTHER'S DAY 2011
- Thoughts on Valentine's Day
- Goodbye to all that
- Remembering Grampa
- Remembering Uncle Walter
- Remembering Doctor Heller
- Personal essays
- The Washouts
- The Small Girl
- Books of interest
- The Origins of AIDS by Jacques Pepin, M.D.
- Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever
- Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker
- The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch, Ph.D.
- Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health by H. Gilbert Welch, M.P.H., M.D.
- Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear by Jan Bondeson
- Blaming the Brain: the Truth About Drugs and Mental Health by Elliot S. Valenstein Ph.D.
- Our Daily Meds by Melody Peterson
- In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
- Overdo$ed America by John Abramson, M.D.
- The Truth About the Drug Companies by Marcia Angell, M.D.
- Selling Sickness by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
- Uninsured in America by Susan Starr Sered, Ph.D., and Rushika Fenrandopulle, Ph.D.
- Sick Girl by Amy Silverstein
- Sick by Jonathan Cohn
- Overtreated by Shannon Brownlee
- Worried Sick by Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.
- My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
- Should I Be Tested for Cancer by H. Gilbert Welch, M.D., M.P.H.
- The Lobotomist by Jack El-Hai
- Medical Nemesis by Ivan Ilich
- Confessions of a Medical Heretic by Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D.
On December 1, 2008, Lorain County Sherriff’s deputies stormed the home of John and Jacqueline Stowers of LaGrange, Ohio, where they run a natural foods co-op called the Manna Storehouse, which distributes locally produced food, including grass-fed beef and lamb, free-range… Read full post »
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Here’s an article by Len Doyal, Professor Emeritus of Bioethics at the University of London, who argues that doctors should have the right to kill us when they judge that our lives are no longer worth living.
In fairness to Profes… Read full post »
According to this article in the Baltimore Sun, Maryland lawmakers and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield have introduced a proposal to force uninsured state residents to shell out $3,000 apiece every year for health insurance, whether they want to or not. Residents who refused to pon… Read full post »
Patrick Hahn's Favorites
Brazen Princess
Mary Ann Sorrentino
A Zillion Dollars
Tina Lee
Holly Robinson
Tiffany BrubeckUpdates
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Why Are Religious Men Afraid of Casual Sex?
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For Neil and Sweet Sweet Diary, the Happy Couple
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GM MAKES BIGGEST PROFIT EVER IN 2011.
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Raptor Rapture
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WHAT OBAMA WILL NOT SAY TO GET RE-ELECTED
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My Daughters Have Traveled
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Attempted Poetry: Haiku: Revelation
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Who Do You Have To Blow (to get an EP 'round here)
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