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Research
interests:
My cross-cultural observations of health
attitudes, behaviors and treatments among East and
West African cultures, inspired me to investigate how
sociocultural beliefs and behavior articulate with
biological characteristics, processes and systems.
My dissertation, The Effects of Cellular
Theta Breathing Meditation on Cell Mediated Immune
Response: A Controlled, Randomized Investigation of
Altered Consciousness and Health, explores how
healing-oriented, ritualized altered consciousness, so
common in the ethnographic record, influences immune
function.
Additional research interests include alternative
medicine, traditional healing, human health and
evolution, medical ecology, biology of human
consciousness, shamanism, and human sexuality.
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