Archive: Media and Scholarship
257 Articles
- Scholarship
“Assessing Health and Human Services Needs to Support an Integrated Health in All Policies Plan for Prince George’s County, Maryland”
This report, co-written by Dr. Christopher King for the RAND Social and Economic Well-Being, describes both the health needs and drivers of health of the Prince George's County's…
August 31, 2021
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“How COVID, Inequality and Politics Make a Vicious Syndemic”, Emily Mendenhall and Clarence C. Gravlee in Scientific American
Emily Mendenhall and Clarence C. Gravlee analyze the conditions that made COVID a syndemic in the.…
August 26, 2021
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- Past events
Always Take Notes Podcast, Episode 115: Aminatta Forna
Aminatta Forna speaks with the Always Take Notes hosts, Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd, about her early work at the BBC, the similarities between creative non-fiction and fiction…
August 24, 2021
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- Past events
Third Culture Africans Podcast: Aminatta Forna, Changing the Narrative on Identity, Grief, and Appropriation
Aminatta Forna talks with Zeze Oriaikhi-Sao about about the impact words can have on people, why she thinks appropriation can cause great damage to the literary and arts world,…
August 23, 2021
- Scholarship
“The Anthropology of Health Systems: A History and Review”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors conceptualize the anthropology of health systems as a field; review the history of this body of knowledge; and outline emergent literatures on…
August 13, 2021
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- Past events
COVIDCalls Podcast, Episode #320: Medical Humanities, Literature, COVID-19 w/Guest Host Jacob-Steere Williams featuring Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Lorenzo Servitje
A daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic featuring Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Lorenzo Servitje - hosted by Dr. Scott Gabriel Knowles, a historian of disasters at KAIST in…
August 12, 2021
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Infectious Historians Podcast, Episode #72: Climate Change and the Globalization of Disease in the Early Middle Ages with Tim Newfield
Timothy Newfield talks to Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai about the connected histories of climate change and diseases that become pandemics, focusing on the early medieval and…
July 29, 2021
- Media
Words: Sideshow, Freak Show, Circus
In this short silent film, Toni-Lee Sangastiano presents media headlines that employ the words “freak show, sideshow, and circus” as negative metaphors in politics and…
July 27, 2021
- Media
“What is Supplication?” Greek Myth Comix by Jenks Explains Victoria Pedrick’s Research Using Stick-Man Comics
L E Jenkinson-Brown, Classical Civilisation and Literature teacher, writer, and stick-figure artist, drew this comic piece to illustrate Victoria Pedrick's research paper: …
July 27, 2021
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Ethical Research Podcast Episode 9: Dr. Maggie Little on Research During Pregnancy
Maggie Little talks with Dr. Ran Goldman about the exclusion of pregnant women from medical.…
July 21, 2021