Brendan Borrell

Brendan Borrell is a journalist and a 2013 Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow. His writing has appeared in Scientific American, Slate and The New York Times.

Written by Brendan Borrell

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Human reproduction

Magic or medicine?

If you were a poor Ugandan mother with a desperately ill baby, would you turn to Western medicine or the village healer?

Brendan Borrell