Archive: Media and Scholarship
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“Preparing for Emerging Infections Means Expecting New Syndemics”
Emily Mendenhall and Colin J. Carlson explain the importance of syndemic thinking in complicating our understanding of epidemics like the Zika virus outbreak in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Category: Scholarship
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Emily Mendenhall on Why We Need to Rethink Diabetes
Emily Mendenhall challenges the idea that diabetes is a “lifestyle disease”, which views individuals as solely responsible for diabetes. Mendenhall argues that diabetes is a product of society, of both global and local factors.
Category: Media
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Dr. Christopher King Appointed to Serve on the DC Commission on Health Equity
On July 9, 2019, the DC Council voted to approve the appointment of Dr. Christopher King to serve on the DC Commission on Health Equity.
Category: Media
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Rethinking Diabetes
In Rethinking Diabetes, Emily Mendenhall investigates how global and local factors transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied from place to place.
Category: Scholarship
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“Rapid Range Shifts in African Anopheles Mosquitoes Over the Last Century”
The team of researchers that includes Emily Mendenhall and Timothy Newfield uses historical data to trace range shifts in Anopheles mosquitoes, which are the vector of malaria and several neglected tropical diseases.
Category: Scholarship
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The Georgetown University Medical Center Writes About the Georgetown Lombardi’s Poetry Café
The Georgetown University Medical Center describes the fourth annual Poetry Café that took place at the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital on June 6, 2019. This event is part of the Arts & Humanities Program, directed by Julia Langley.
Category: Media
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“Institutional Madness: Shakespeare as Hospital Survival Guide”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Arthur Frank look at how Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure might offer comfort and companionship for patients facing the institutional madness of hospitals, seen as kingdoms ruled by bizarre or irrational rules.
Category: Scholarship
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“Women’s Views about Contraception Requirements for Biomedical Research Participation”
Maggie Little and her co-authors inquire on the views of women in the U.S. and in Malawi around the requirement of contraception among reproductive aged women in biomedical studies. They explore when such requirements are appropriate.
Category: Scholarship
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“Comfort Care, Whatever Does That Mean?”, Dr. Michael Pottash’s Article Review on Pallimed
Dr. Michael Pottash argues that any term to describe dying care will always be problematic, and, thus, we should get rid of it altogether.
Category: Media
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“‘Wasting Away’: Diabetes, Food Insecurity, and Medical Insecurity in the Somali Region of Ethiopia”
Emily Mendenhall and Lauren Carruth investigate rising concerns about diabetes among Somalis in eastern Ethiopia. They focus on communities where obesity is rare and people face chronic food insecurity, forced displacement, recurrent humanitarian crises, and lack of access to medical care.
Category: Scholarship