Theresa (Teresa) McPhail
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
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It's bad.
It's one of the reasons I can't tell you how many people actually have an allergy.
He used to fight with people to get them to recognize that their issue is food allergy.
And now he fights with people to get them to recognize that their issue is not food allergy.
Medical anthropology is looking at all the social and cultural factors involved in healthcare systems.
We think about how all those beliefs and politics and economics, how all of that factors into the choices people make about their health and how they view their health.
I'm associate professor of science and technology studies at Stevens Institute of Technology.
That's been a puzzle as to why an immune cell will take a look at something that is otherwise harmless and decide that it's not and do it after sometimes years of tolerating it just fine.
And suddenly now it's a problem.
My father died of a bee sting.
He died from an anaphylactic reaction to bee venom.
He had had a reaction in the past, but it was fairly mild, just swelling at the site.
That's mostly what happens to anyone who gets stung by a venomous insect.
And he died on the second sting.
We really don't know how many times he was stung because he was a Vietnam vet, so there's a chance that he was stung prior to that.
And I got curious about my own
susceptibility to such things.
Years later, I was diagnosed with allergies, but I am one of the rare people that do not react to skin or blood tests.
I have low levels of IgE, the antibody that is driving the allergic response.
So there's no way to tell what I'm allergic to, except that clinically you can see the signs and symptoms that I am allergic to something.
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