Archive: Media and Scholarship

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Scholarship

“Looking Ahead: The Importance of Views, Values, and Voices in Neuroethics—Now”

In light of the developments the body-to-head transplant (BHT) in China, which have attracted considerable attention and criticism, Dr. James Giordano reflects about the evermore…

September 10, 2018

Scholarship

“Understanding Heartbreak: From Takotsubo to Wuthering Heights”

Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Daniel Marchalik discuss the poetic and medical languages to describe.…

September 8, 2018

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“Ambiguity in End-of-Life Care Terminology—What Do We Mean by ‘Comfort Care?'”

Dr. Hunter Groninger and Anne M. Kelemen explore the ambiguity in the terminology associated with end-of-life care, highlighting the need to talk about what “comfort care”…

September 4, 2018

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Global Podcast: The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics

In the Global Podcast, the Global Communications Group explores the relationship between the arts and international relations through the work of The Laboratory for Global…

September 4, 2018

Scholarship

Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories. Thought on the Edge

This book, edited by Nicoletta Pireddu, and with contributors from diverse cultural and scholarly backgrounds and based in three different continents, participates in the ongoing…

August 28, 2018

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“Rethinking cures in Jesse Ball’s A Cure for Suicide”

Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Ann Jurecic delve into Jesse Ball's A Cure for Suicide to explore the experience of loneliness in the present, and the need to better address its social…

March 31, 2018

Media

“The Power of your Suffering Is in How You Tell your Story”, Aminatta Forna in PBS NewsHour’s My Humble Opinion

Aminatta Forna spoke about trauma in the "In My Humble Opinion" segment of PBS NewsHour. She responds to what she considers an overuse of the word "trauma", stressing, instead,…

March 19, 2018

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“Post-Transplantation Palliative Care: Misconceptions and Disincentives”

Dr. Michael Pottash argues for the value of providing palliative care to transplant recipients, which faces two major barriers: misconceptions about the goals of palliative care,…

January 15, 2018

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“Examining the Artist-Patient Relationship in Palliative Care. A Thematic Analysis of Artist Reflections on Encounters with Palliative Patients”

Julia Langley and her co-authors study the artist-patient encounter and how artists can function in the palliative interdisciplinary model of.…

December 22, 2017

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“The Return to Literature—Making Doctors Matter in the New Era of Medicine”

As medicine faces rapid changes in our current era, which include the widespread use of artificial intelligence, it is also expected for the nature of physicians' jobs to change,…

December 14, 2017