Philosophy Science Psychology Society Culture

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

A woman in a colourful headscarf and white top standing next to a brick building with a rural backdrop.

essayHuman 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