The Mystery of Altitude Sickness
Time to Eat the Dogs
Lachlan Fleetwood talks about debates about altitude sickness in the Himalaya and the ways these debates became tied up with ideas about the physiology of Europeans and Himalayans. Fleetwood is the author of βBodies in High Places: Exploration, Altitude Sickness, and the Problem of Bodily Comparison in the Himalaya, 1800-50,β published in the journal Itinerario 43, no. 3 (2019): 489-515. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesNext Episodes
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