Archive: Scholarship

• “Person Under Investigation: Detecting Malingering and a Diagnostics of Suspicion in Fin-de-Siècle Britain”

  Lakshmi Krishnan’s publication examines shifting conceptions of diagnosis & malingering in fin-de-siècle Great Britain by studying two important cases: physician Cornélius Herz’s ordeal after the collapse of the French Panama Canal Company (1889) & Sherlock Holmes’ “Adventure of the Dying Detective” (1913).

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• “Syndemics and the history of disease: Towards a new engagement”

  In his latest publication, “Syndemics and the history of disease: Towards a new engagement”, Timothy Newfield looks at histories of disease and our understanding of current syndemics to think of epidemics through a syndemic lens.

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• “Ukuphumelela: Flourishing and the pursuit of a good life, and good health, in Soweto, South Africa”

  In “Ukuphumelela: Flourishing and the pursuit of a good life, and good health, in Soweto, South Africa”, the team of researchers that includes Emily Mendenhall investigate how people residing in Soweto, located in South Africa’s Gauteng province, define, experience, and express what it means to live a flourishing life, both on its own and in relation to health.

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• “Transformative experiences and A Young Doctor’s Notebook”

  In this publication, Daniel Marchalik and Andrew Lipsky look at LA Paul’s Transformative Experience to understand the implications and rationale behind the decision of becoming a physician.

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• “Pregnant women & vaccines against emerging epidemic threats: Ethics guidance for preparedness, research, and response”

  In this publication, co-authored by Maggie Little, the researchers take a look at the way in which pregnant women and their offspring have been historically excluded from research agendas and investment strategies for vaccines against epidemic threats. They offer 22 concrete recommendations to ensure that the needs of pregnant women and their offspring are fairly addressed.

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• “’Thinking Too Much’: A Systematic Review of the Idiom of Distress in Sub-Saharan Africa”

  This systematic review, by a group of researchers that includes Emily Mendenhall, analyzes how, where, and among whom the idiom “thinking too much” —employed in cultural settings worldwide to express feelings of emotional and cognitive disquiet with psychological, physical, and social consequences on people’s well-being and daily functioning— was investigated within varied Sub-Saharan African contexts.

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• “Medical Humanities in a Pandemic: Essential and Critical”

  In “Medical Humanities in a Pandemic: Essential and Critical”, Lakshmi Krishnan and Anna Reisman account for the invaluable insights that the humanities offer the biomedical sciences during the COVID-19 pandemic, as a means of examining themselves, their profession, and the broader social context.

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• “Taking pandemic sequelae seriously: from the Russian influenza to COVID-19 long-haulers”

  In “Taking pandemic sequelae seriously: from the Russian influenza to COVID-19 long-haulers”, Lakshmi Krishnan and Mark Honigsbaum look back to the Russian influenza and the historical accounts of the sequelae to make sense of the experience of the COVID-19 long-haulers in the present.

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• “Past pandemics and climate variability across the Mediterranean”

  In “Past pandemics and climate variability across the Mediterranean”, the team of researchers that includes Professor Timothy Newfield explores potential associations between pandemic disease and climate over the last 2,500 years in Mediterranean history, to make sense of the influence that meteorological, climatological and environmental factors had on historical disease outbreaks.

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• “Historical Insights on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and Racial Disparities: Illuminating a Path Forward”

  In this article, Lakshmi Krishnan, S. Michelle Ogunwole and Lisa A. Cooper examine the racial health disparities in the historical arc of the 1918 influenza pandemic, to understand critical structural inequities and health care gaps that have historically contributed to and continue to compound disparate health outcomes among communities of color.

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