Up Close and Personal
Piece written for Lapham´s Quarterly, issue on "Eros" (Winter 2009).
Read it here (Lapham´s Quarterly website) or here (pdf).
Titian: Venus and Adonis (Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
Passions and Tempers
Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours
A 2500-year journey that explores the origins of humours in ancient Greece through the present day. Published by Ecco (HarperCollins). Read more.
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written for the 2010 Edge World Question Center
Piece for Lapham´s Quarterly, "Medicine" issue (Fall 2009).
Piece on the history of personals for Lapham´s Quarterly, Eros issue (Winter 2009).
Given at the Third International Conference on the Philosophy of Wine, 30-31 May 2008.
Written for the first issue of a new journal on the philosophy of wine, Tacuinum Vitineum.
La quête de l´équilibre: âme, vertus, humeurs
Piece published in the French journal Corps (March 2010)