Second Opinion: Essays on Health Culture and Society

by Gideon Lasco

356 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2025

About the author

Gideon Lasco, MD, PhD is a physician, medical anthropologist, and writer. He is senior lecturer at the University of the Philippines Diliman's Department of Anthropology, research fellow at the Ateneo de Manila University's Development Studies Program, and honorary fellow at Hong Kong University's Centre for Criminology. He is currently based in Mexico City where he is doing comparative research on COVID-19 responses, and language studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

His collection of essays, The Philippines Is Not A Small Country, was published by the Ateneo de Manila Press in September 2020, and his ethnographic monograph on human stature, Height Matters, The Making, Meanings, and Materialities of Human Stature in the Philippines, is forthcoming with the University of the Philippines Press. He is also the editor of Drugs and Philippine Society (Ateneo Press, 2021), a collection of critical perspectives on drug use and drug policy in the country.

Reviews

[Daniel Rubio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Couldn’t be more proud of my friend Gideon Lasco for this amazing piece of art. I think I agree with his way of seeing the world, I guess because I will also work in the healthcare industry, so I’m glad I can see wider view of the world by the fact of understanding these thoughts.