Archive: Scholarship
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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
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“Physicians in the Digital Age”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Dr. Edward Melnick look at what Philip K. Dick's dystopian novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? can teach us about AI &.…
January 15, 2022
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“Balancing Act: Precision Medicine and National Security”
James Giordano and Diane DiEuliis describe current scientific and technological developments in precision medicine. They assess the risks of using these tools and capabilities to…
December 30, 2021
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“Ending the Evidence Gap for Pregnancy, HIV and Co-Infections: Ethics Guidance from the PHASES Project”
Maggie Little and her co-authors describe the process, ethical foundations, recommendations and applications of guidance for advancing responsible inclusion of pregnant people in…
December 15, 2021
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“Syndemic Theory, Methods, and Data”
Emily Mendenhall, Timothy Newfield and Alexander Tsai introduce an Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine, focused on Rethinking Syndemics through time, space, and.…
December 14, 2021
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Migrating Minds: Theories and Practices of Cultural Cosmopolitanism
This book, edited by Nicoletta Pireddu, Didier Coste, and Christina Kkona, presents 20 innovative essays by humanities scholars from all over the world that re-examine theories…
November 30, 2021
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“Person Under Investigation: Detecting Malingering and a Diagnostics of Suspicion in Fin-de-Siècle Britain”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan examines shifting conceptions of diagnosis & malingering in fin-de-siècle Great Britain by studying two important cases: Physician Cornélius Herz’s…
October 19, 2021
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“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.…
October 4, 2021