Archive: Scholarship
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“Evaluating the Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceived Risk of COVID-19 Infection and Childhood Trauma Predict Adult Depressive Symptoms in Urban South Africa”
Emily Mendenhall, Andrew Wooyoung Kim and Tawanda Nyengerai evaluate the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Soweto, a major township in South Africa, a society…
September 8, 2020
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“Metabolic Reflections: Blurring the Line between Trauma and Diabetes”
Emily Mendenhall argues for clinical studies of diabetes to recognize the impacts of chronic stress and trauma on metabolism. In her anthropological research, she has identified…
August 24, 2020
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“Palliative Care Consultation and Effect on Length of Stay in a Tertiary-Level Neurological Intensive Care Unit”
The team of researchers that includes Dr. Michael Pottash and Dr. Hunter Groninger investigated the characteristics and impact of palliative care consultation for patients in a…
August 19, 2020
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“The Emerging Neurobioeconomy: Implications for National Security”
James Giordano and his co-authors examine growth of the neuroscience and neurotechnology market in recent years. They discuss the distinct ethical and security issues posed by…
August 19, 2020
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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…
July 21, 2020
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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.…
July 12, 2020
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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…
June 20, 2020
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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'…
June 3, 2020
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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…
May 27, 2020
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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…
May 27, 2020