Archive: Media and Scholarship
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“Mapping the Past, Present, and Future of Brain Research to Navigate Directions, Dangers, and Discourses of Dual-Use”
Working towards the goal of fostering effective biosecurity strategies to include emerging fields like neuroscience and neurotechnology (neuroS/T), James Giordano and Joseph DeFranco identify two general approaches that can be used to monitor brain science research, to facilitate the detection of dual and direct-use biological threats as they relate to advancements in brain sciences.
Category: Scholarship
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“The Justinianic Plague: An Inconsequential Pandemic?”
Timothy Newfield and his co-authors challenge current consensus about the number of deaths and significance of the Justinianic Plague.
Category: Scholarship
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“Progress and nostalgia in A Visit from the Goon Squad”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Ann Jurecic write about the tension between yearning for the future and nostalgia for the past in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, and how that tension plays out in medicine.
Category: Scholarship
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The Hoya Covers the Development of the Medical Humanities Major
The Hoya introduces the future Medical Humanities major, expected to possibly launch in coming years, mentioning the Spring 2020 courses, and Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Daniel Marchalik’s vision for the Medical Humanities at Georgetown University.
Category: Media
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The Hoya Covers How Students and Professors Are Pushing for Better Accessibility for Invisible Disabilities
The Hoya explores the barriers that exist for students with invisible disabilities in Georgetown, presenting insights from students from the Georgetown Disability Alliance and professors from the Disability Studies Program, including Sylvia Önder, on how to address them.
Category: Media
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“Physicians, Oaths, and Vampires”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Daniel Marchalik analyze John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819). They assess the power of oaths, looking at the physicians’ burnout derived from the Hippocratic Oath.
Category: Scholarship
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The Hoya Writes about the Georgetown Disability Alliance and the Work to Address the Needs of Members of the Community with Diverse Abilities
On its covering of the of the development of the Georgetown Disability Alliance, the student organization founded to draw attention to issues affecting students with disabilities on campus, The Hoya talked with Sylvia Önder about the work that Georgetown and the Disabilities Studies Program to bring more awareness and address the needs of members of the Georgetown community living with disabilities.
Category: Media
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“The Impact of Non-Medical Reading on Clinician Burnout: A National Survey of Palliative Care Providers”
The team of researchers that includes Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Dr. Hunter Groninger studies the impact of non-medical reading on burnout in hospice and palliative care physicians. They suggest that reading non-medical literature on a consistent basis may be associated with a significantly decreased likelihood of burnout.
Category: Scholarship
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BBC Radio 4 – Bookclub: Aminatta Forna – The Memory of Love
Aminatta Forna discusses her novel The Memory of Love with James Naughtie and a group of readers at the BBC Radio – 4 Bookclub podcast. The Memory of Love has as its background three decades of unrest and violence in Sierra Leone, Aminatta Forna’s father’s home country and the one where she mostly grew up.
Categories: Media, Past events
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“The Arts Through the Lens of Health Care at Georgetown Lombardi”, Lombardi Stories Features Julia Langley
This Lombardi Story talks about how the Arts and Humanities Program, directed by Julia Langley, has impacted the care provided to the patients of the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
Category: Media