Archive: Media and Scholarship
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“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 “distinguished success” to “scandalous misconduct” of medical apprentices, to the 1970s advances in our understanding of burnout—, he considers the effects of the new wave of modernization on physicians.
Category: Scholarship
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“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 Change.
Category: Scholarship
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“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 changing climate on malaria and non-yersinial, non-plague, epidemics are not overlooked.
Category: Scholarship
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“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 have ever been conducted in pregnant women. This publication, co-authored by Maggie Little, resulted from the discussions held at an expert meeting convened in December 2016 at NIAID, NIH, in Rockville, Maryland to deliberate on the rationale and design of malaria vaccine trials in pregnant women.
Category: Scholarship
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“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 suffering, pain, or illness.
Category: Scholarship
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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 movement based course that can benefit for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).
Category: Media
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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, who face end-of-life situations after prolonged non-adherence to a medical treatment plan. The guests offer their ethical reflections on the challenges, naming the components of complexity, and what is important for ethics committee members to pay attention to in patient stories like these.
Categories: Media, Past events
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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, cultural and literary critic Scipio Sighele.
Category: Scholarship
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“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 useful.
Category: Media
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“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 providers’ discomfort in employing clear, direct terms when talking about dying can have unintended consequences, such as miscommunication, and missed or delayed opportunities to engage in the grieving process.
Category: Scholarship