Archive: Scholarship
96 Articles
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“Healing on Credit: Medical Bills and the Politics of Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Pondichéry”
This article presents part of the research Jakob Burnham has been conducting in his 2021-2022 Medical Humanities Research Fellowship, which explores the centrality of medical…
May 17, 2022
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Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean
This book, co-authored by John McNeill, Philip J. Morgan, Matthew Mulcahy, and Stuart B. Schwartz, delves into the environment and ecology of the Caribbean, exploring issues…
May 13, 2022
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“Vaccination Disagreement Between Parents”
Dr. James Giordano addresses the ethical dilemma faced by physicians when, for the decision of vaccinating children, find parents with opposite.…
May 1, 2022
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“All Ethics Is Global: New Neuroethics in a Multipolar and Multicultural World”
Dr. James Giordano and Dr. John R. Shook explore the issues that the globalization process poses on.…
April 27, 2022
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“Outbreak: Contagion and Culture in the Victorian Era: Introduction”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Kari Nixon introduce the Journal of Victorian Culture's Rountable on "Outbreak: Contagion and Culture in the Victorian Era", which asks how the…
April 26, 2022
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“An Extraordinary Sequel: The ‘Russian’ Influenza and Enduring Sequelae in Victorian Culture”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan examines the ‘Russian’ influenza pandemic’s enduring cultural and biosocial.…
April 5, 2022
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Unmasked
In this book, Emily Mendenhall writes about what happened in her hometown, Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the economy…
March 16, 2022
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“The Need for Modernization of Biosecurity in the Post-COVID World”
Dr. James Giordano explores different questions related to biosecurity, when doing research on dangerous pathogens, in the context of the.…
February 28, 2022
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“Palaeoecological Data Indicates Land-Use Changes Across Europe Linked to Spatial Heterogeneity in Mortality During the Black Death Pandemic”
Timothy Newfield and his co-authors write about their application of a pioneering new approach, ‘big data palaeoecology’ to evaluate the scale of the Black Death’s…
February 10, 2022
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“Race, Place, And Structural Racism: A Review Of Health And History In Washington, D.C.”
Dr. Christopher King and his co-authors do a historical review of policies, practices, and events that have sustained systemic racism on the health of the United States. It…
February 8, 2022