Archive: Scholarship
-
“Mapping the Past, Present, and Future of Brain Research to Navigate Directions, Dangers, and Discourses of Dual-Use”
Working towards the goal of fostering effective biosecurity strategies to include emerging fields like neuroscience and neurotechnology (neuroS/T), James Giordano and Joseph DeFranco identify two general approaches that can be used to monitor brain science research, to facilitate the detection of dual and direct-use biological threats as they relate to advancements in brain sciences.
Category: Scholarship
-
“The Justinianic Plague: An Inconsequential Pandemic?”
Timothy Newfield and his co-authors challenge current consensus about the number of deaths and significance of the Justinianic Plague.
Category: Scholarship
-
“Progress and nostalgia in A Visit from the Goon Squad”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Ann Jurecic write about the tension between yearning for the future and nostalgia for the past in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, and how that tension plays out in medicine.
Category: Scholarship
-
“Physicians, Oaths, and Vampires”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Daniel Marchalik analyze John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819). They assess the power of oaths, looking at the physicians’ burnout derived from the Hippocratic Oath.
Category: Scholarship
-
“The Impact of Non-Medical Reading on Clinician Burnout: A National Survey of Palliative Care Providers”
The team of researchers that includes Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Dr. Hunter Groninger studies the impact of non-medical reading on burnout in hospice and palliative care physicians. They suggest that reading non-medical literature on a consistent basis may be associated with a significantly decreased likelihood of burnout.
Category: Scholarship
-
“Preparing for Emerging Infections Means Expecting New Syndemics”
Emily Mendenhall and Colin J. Carlson explain the importance of syndemic thinking in complicating our understanding of epidemics like the Zika virus outbreak in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Category: Scholarship
-
Rethinking Diabetes
In Rethinking Diabetes, Emily Mendenhall investigates how global and local factors transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied from place to place.
Category: Scholarship
-
“Rapid Range Shifts in African Anopheles Mosquitoes Over the Last Century”
The team of researchers that includes Emily Mendenhall and Timothy Newfield uses historical data to trace range shifts in Anopheles mosquitoes, which are the vector of malaria and several neglected tropical diseases.
Category: Scholarship
-
“Institutional Madness: Shakespeare as Hospital Survival Guide”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Arthur Frank look at how Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure might offer comfort and companionship for patients facing the institutional madness of hospitals, seen as kingdoms ruled by bizarre or irrational rules.
Category: Scholarship
-
“Women’s Views about Contraception Requirements for Biomedical Research Participation”
Maggie Little and her co-authors inquire on the views of women in the U.S. and in Malawi around the requirement of contraception among reproductive aged women in biomedical studies. They explore when such requirements are appropriate.
Category: Scholarship