Archive: Media and Scholarship
240 Articles
- Scholarship
“Physician Burnout in the Modern Era”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik looks at physicians' professional stress through a historical lens. By examining different historical moments —from 19th century accounts of the â€â€¦
March 2, 2019
- Scholarship
“The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change”
Emily Mendenhall and Merrill Singer respond to the work the The Lancet Commission on the Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate.…
February 23, 2019
- Scholarship
“Mysterious and Mortiferous Clouds: The Climate Cooling and Disease Burden of Late Antiquity”
Timothy Newfield inquires on the influence of climate on disease in Late Antiquity. Particular attention is paid to the Justinianic Plague, but the potential impacts of a…
February 21, 2019
- Scholarship
“Malaria Vaccine Trials in Pregnant Women: An Imperative Without Precedent”
Although pregnant women are highly susceptible to Plasmodium falciparum malaria, leading to substantial maternal, perinatal, and infant mortality, no trials of malaria vaccines…
February 4, 2019
- Scholarship
“An Ethnopsychology of Idioms of Distress in Urban Kenya”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors propose a preliminary model of ethnopsychology which incorporates local and global idioms of distress used by urban Kenyans to express…
January 23, 2019
- Media
The Georgetown University Medical Center Talks about the Movement for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Program
The Georgetown University Medical Center highlights the Movement for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Program, created by Julia Langley, Carlo Tornatore and Erika Mitchell as a music and…
January 4, 2019
- Media
- Past events
Ethicslab Podcast: Psychiatric Disability and Life Threatening Non-Adherence, featuring Dr. Carol Taylor, Dr. Michael Pottash, Dr. Laura Guidry-Grimes and Dr. Sarah Kleinfeld
In the Ethicslab podcast, Dr. Carol Taylor, Dr. Michael Pottash, Dr. Laura Guidry-Grimes and Dr. Sarah Kleinfeld reflect on the stories of patients with psychiatric disability,…
December 27, 2018
- Scholarship
The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society
This book, with an introduction and notes by Nicoletta Pireddu, who edited and co-translated it, is the first English collection of writings by Italian jurist, sociologist,…
November 8, 2018
- Media
“Advance Directive-ish”, Dr. Michael Pottash Writes on the Better Healthcare Blog
Dr. Michael Pottash writes about problems with advance directives, and provides specific guidelines for doctors, patients and families to take into account, for them to be.…
October 27, 2018
- Scholarship
“When We Document End-of-Life Care, Words Still Matter”
Dr. Hunter Groninger and Anne M. Kelemen highlight the findings of the study “Language Used by Health Care Professionals to Describe Dying at an Acute Care Hospital”, and how…
September 21, 2018