Archive: Media and Scholarship
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Neuroscience, its Applications and Implications, Dr. Nigel Cameron Interviews Dr. James Giordano for the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies
Dr. Nigel Cameron, President and CEO of the Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies, interviewed Dr. James Giordano on his work in neuroscience, from basic research, to ethics, to defense applications; the public interest in the implications of this research, and the multi-national character of the projects he is part of.
Category: Media
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“We Doctors See Death all around Us, But We Don’t Like to Think about Our Own”, Daniel Marchalik Writes on The Washington Post
In this piece published on The Washington Post, Dr. Daniel Marchalik writes about how Paul Kalanithi’s memoir, “When Breath Becomes Air”, confronted him and his friends from medical school with the fear of their own death.
Category: Media
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“De-Privatizing Self-Harm: Remembering the Social Self in How to Forget”
Theodora Danylevich reads Malu De Martino’s 2010 film Como Esqueçer (How to Forget) as a case study in self-harm as a mode of expression and self-inquiry. The author argues that How to Forget charts a “crip” epistemology of self-harm and theorizes a “social self.” That is to say, the film models an orientation towards self-harm that offers a coalitional and social therapeutic understanding.
Category: Scholarship
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“Gender Dysphoria Is Killing Transgender Teens. Why Aren’t We Talking About It?”, Daniel Marchalik Explores on Slate
Dr. Daniel Marchalik addresses the alarming high rates of transgender individuals who have attempted suicide.
Category: Media
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“Yes, Your Doctor Really Needs to Ask About Your Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity”, Daniel Marchalik Explains on Slate
Dr. Daniel Marchalik explains why the mandate requiring that all electronic health records include specific fields about gender identity and sexual orientation can help healthcare professionals better tailor medical care to their individual risk factors.
Category: Media
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“Teaching LGBT Issues in the New Era of Medical Education”, Daniel Marchalik Describes His Experience on Slate
In response to the need to better educate medical students on LGBT-related topics, Dr. Daniel Marchalik describes his experience teaching LGBT issues, as part of the Human Sexuality module, to second-year medical students.
Category: Media
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“Artists’ Perspectives on Encounters with Palliative Inpatients, a Qualitative Study”
The team of researchers that includes Julia Langley sought to identify overarching themes, outcomes and impacts of the Arts and Humanities Program at Georgetown University on artists and patients from the palliative medicine service.
Category: Scholarship
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“Beyond Thinking: Black Flesh as Meat Patties and The End of Eating Everything”
Theodora Danylevich explores flesh as an inner register of violence against African-American and diasporic black subjects.
Category: Scholarship
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Ottoman History Podcast: Health and Home in a Turkish Village with Sylvia Wing Önder
Sylvia Önder talks with Chris Gratien and Seçil Yılmaz about her monograph “We Have No Microbes Here”, looking at continuities in the centrality of households and women in making decisions about medical care within a Black Sea village.
Categories: Media, Past events
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The Works of Claudio Magris: Temporary Homes, Mobile Identities, European Borders
This book, authored by Nicoletta Pireddu, is the first comprehensive critical analysis for an English-speaking audience of the corpus of Claudio Magris.
Category: Scholarship