Hear 2018 Open Joint Third Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine

Описание: Raphael Dagold Bishkek, Chuy, Kyrgyzstan - Pharmacology
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About Pharmacology he said: “In 2016, when I moved from the U.S. to Kyrgyzstan to begin teaching at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, I was surprised by how drastically unmoored I felt: the geographical shift seemed a sea-change of my whole being, not just mentally, but physically too. I had stopped smoking a few years earlier but still chewed Nicorette, which doesn’t seem to exist in Kyrgyzstan, even conceptually. So my search for nicotine gum in Bishkek was a site of intersection for my mental and physical states—and luckily, I found some humor in all this, which I hope the poem exhibits."