When Pride Becomes a Matter of Life and Death: The Shocking Truth Behind Embarrassment

When Pride Becomes a Matter of Life and Death: The Shocking Truth Behind Embarrassment

You cannot blame the sick for being ill, and illness does not make someone broken. The grammar of blame is inherited. I am trying, with whatever words I have, to break the chain.

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Philip T Starks writerPhilip T Starks is a behavioral ecologist and associate professor of biology at Tufts University, where he studies social insects. His essays have appeared in Scientific American, JAMA, Psyche and elsewhere; he has also published more than 75 peer-reviewed papers on social animals. A U.S. Army veteran of the Persian Gulf War, he lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Caroline, and their sons.

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