Archive: Scholarship
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“What We May Learn – And Need – From Pandemic Fiction”
James Giordano and Jane Doherty explore the reasons why people might be looking at science fiction stories since the global outbreak of COVID-19, and identify key takeaways of what we may learn from pandemic fiction.
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“Cripistemologies of Crisis: Emergent Knowledges for the Present”
Theodora Danylevich and Alyson Patsavas introduce the essays in “Cripistemologies of Crisis: Emergent Knowledges for the Present”, the Spring 2021 issue of the Lateral Journal.
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“Seeing COVID-19 through José Saramago’s Blindness”
Daniel Marchalik and Dmitriy Petrov propose an approach to the novel Blindness, which would allow us to process the emotional devastation, socioeconomic impacts, and pressures on front-line health-care workers that continue to shape our world.
Category: Scholarship
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“Practicing Serious Illness Conversations in Graduate Medical Education”
Dr. Michael Pottash and his co-authors address the lack of routine practice opportunities in medical training to have a serious illness conversation, including discussing patients’ expectations, concerns, and preferences regarding an advancing illness. By testing incorporating a serious illness conversation into routine trainee practice, they found that trainees found it to be an important addition to their routine practice. Patients found the conversation to be important, reassuring, and of better quality than their usual visits.
Category: Scholarship
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“Health Disparities in the Black Community: An Imperative for Racial Equity in the District of Columbia”
This publication, with Dr. Christopher King as lead author, illuminates the entrenched health and socioeconomic disparities that help explain why approximately three quarters of the deaths associated with COVID-19 in Washington DC have been among the African American community.
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“Views among Malawian Women about Joining HIV Prevention Clinical Trials when Pregnant”
Maggie Little and her co-authors conducted 35 semi-structured interviews with reproductive-aged women in Malawi, in order to understand their views about participating in biomedical HIV prevention research during pregnancy.
Category: Scholarship
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“Deconstructing PTSD: Trauma and Emotion among Mexican Immigrant Women”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors investigate traumatic experience in life history narratives of low-income Mexican immigrant women in Chicago.
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“Chronic Pain and Illness: States of Privilege and Bodies of Abuse”
Theodora Danylevich explores the relationship between chronic conditions and the geopolitical, social and environmental factors of Modernity.
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“Peak Document and the Future of History”
“Peak Document and the Future of History” was John McNeill’s 2019 presidential address at the AHA annual meeting. In his address, McNeill talked about the use of historical sources that do not come in the written form, but from the natural sciences and archaeology.
Category: Scholarship
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“Taking Care of the Researcher –a Nature and Art-Related Activity Retreat: Sharing Natural Space Puts Humanity into Perspective”
Julia Langley and her co-authors examine the use of a nature and art-related activity retreat designed for researchers. The purpose was to evaluate if and how researchers perceived different workshop experiences set in nature as meaningful and important with regards to their self-care.
Category: Scholarship