Amy Moran-Thomas

Amy Moran-Thomas is Alfred Henry and Jean Morrison Hayes Career Development Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. She is author of Traveling with Sugar: Chronicles of a Global Epidemic.

How a Popular Medical Device Encodes Racial Bias

Pulse oximeters give biased results for people with darker skin. The consequences could be serious.

  • Amy Moran-Thomas

The Pacification of Rio, as Observed from a Gondola

Thanks to the teleférico, tourists can comfortably gawk at Brazil's poor.

  • Amy Moran-Thomas
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