Archive: Media and Scholarship
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Georgetown University Interviews Dr. Christopher King on the Challenges and Opportunities of COVID-19 for DC Black Communities
Dr. Christopher King King explains the potentially devastating impact COVID-19 can have on black residents and shares efforts that are underway to mitigate loss.
Category: Media
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“Beyond 1918: Bringing Pandemic Response into the Present, and Future”, James Giordano, Diane DiEuliis, Peter Emanuel and Alexander Titus Write for the Institute for National Strategic Studies
Dr. James Giordano, Diane DiEuliis, Peter Emanuel and Alexander Titus study the 1918 pandemic, and re-contextualize the issues, problems and solutions of the past in light of the circumstances, capabilities and complexities of the present, considering the technical tools that are currently available for pandemic response, information acquisition, and issues of governmental transparency and communication in the face of public fear.
Category: Media
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Timothy Newfield’s Opinion Piece: “Nothing Was the Same: Historical Parallels for the Coronavirus Should Be Avoided like the Plague”
Timothy Newfield addresses historical parallels regarding pandemics. He argues that our instinct to look to the past for ways forward can be harmful when it comes to pandemics.
Category: Media
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“We Are All Living with Serious Illness Now”, Dr. Michael Pottash and Dr. Anita Hannig’s Reflections on Living with Serious Illness in the Pandemic
Dr. Michael Pottash and Anita Hannig provide some insights, from working with patients living with serious illness, to think about what it means to face a global health crisis.
Category: Media
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“Don’t Compare Past Pandemics to the COVID-19 Crisis”, Georgetown University Interviews Timothy Newfield
Georgetown University talked with Timothy Newfield about the differences between this pandemic and devastating flu of the early 1900s.
Category: Media
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“How to Reopen America”, James Giordano’s Expert Opinion on CNN
To answer the urgent question of “How to reopen America”, CNN presents the expert opinions of Dr. James Giordano and Dr. Daniel M. Gerstein, suggesting “creative approaches to protecting those who are vulnerable, while keeping our society functioning and economy running”.
Category: Media
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“Deconstructing PTSD: Trauma and Emotion among Mexican Immigrant Women”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors investigate traumatic experience in life history narratives of low-income Mexican immigrant women in Chicago.
Category: Scholarship
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“Chronic Pain and Illness: States of Privilege and Bodies of Abuse”
Theodora Danylevich explores the relationship between chronic conditions and the geopolitical, social and environmental factors of Modernity.
Category: Scholarship
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“Peak Document and the Future of History”
“Peak Document and the Future of History” was John McNeill’s 2019 presidential address at the AHA annual meeting. In his address, McNeill talked about the use of historical sources that do not come in the written form, but from the natural sciences and archaeology.
Category: Scholarship
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“Taking Care of the Researcher –a Nature and Art-Related Activity Retreat: Sharing Natural Space Puts Humanity into Perspective”
Julia Langley and her co-authors examine the use of a nature and art-related activity retreat designed for researchers. The purpose was to evaluate if and how researchers perceived different workshop experiences set in nature as meaningful and important with regards to their self-care.
Category: Scholarship