The Forgotten Medicine: Community, Dance & Song
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- Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark, a member of a West African dance company, explains that drumming and communal dance tap into something deeply primal in all of us — connections to ancestral rhythm, grief, celebration, and rites of passage that were severed largely through colonization.
- Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark frames the work of rebuilding community — whether through dance, song, or intentional structures like home-school pods — as “remembrance and reclamation,” not invention: recovering what our cells already know how to do.
- Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark has spent a decade running a culinary medicine program at the University of Chicago Medical School, training physicians to talk with patients about food and cultural humility — a model now active in 80+ academic medical centers nationally.
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