Archive: Media and Scholarship
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“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 international enterprise of brain science, and the need for neuroethical discourse to include and appreciate multicultural views, values, and voices.
Category: Scholarship
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“Understanding Heartbreak: From Takotsubo to Wuthering Heights”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Daniel Marchalik discuss the poetic and medical languages to describe heartbreak.
Category: Scholarship
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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” or “comfort measures” actually mean.
Category: Scholarship
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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 Performance and Politics (The Lab).
Categories: Media, Past events
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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 debate about the alleged “death of theory”, proposing new areas of investigation and interpretive possibilities, reopening dialogues with past and present discourses from a plurality of perspectives and locations.
Category: Scholarship
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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 and cultural causes.
Category: Scholarship
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“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, people’s ability to shape their own narratives”.
Category: Media
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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, and the quality care outcome measures that have the unintended consequence of disincentivizing its routine use.
Category: Scholarship
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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 care.
Category: Scholarship
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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, as well as medical education. Dr. Marchalik explores the innovative approach of the Literature and Medicine Track of the Georgetown University School of Medicine, and suggests ways in which literature could be used to prepare future doctors for the evolving demands of the medical field.
Category: Scholarship