The Mortal and Medicine

The Mortal and Medicine

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On the ache of getting care inside systems that cannot see our full human reality—and the hope of building ones that can. Written by a dancer, engineer, innovator, healthcare scholar, humanist, and cancer survivor.

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About Sylvie Leotin

Dancer, technologist, innovator, scholar, humanist, and cancer survivor. Exploring what technology, medicine, and a world increasingly shaped by machines fail to see about human beings—and how we might build systems that preserve the human spirit.