Archive: Emily Mendenhall
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COVID, Quickly, Episode 14: “Best Masks, Explaining Mask Anger, Biden’s New Plan”, Scientific American Tackled Emily Mendenhall’s Research
In this episode of Scientific American’s podcast series "COVID, Quickly", senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman explore Emily Mendenhall's research on mask…
September 10, 2021
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“How COVID, Inequality and Politics Make a Vicious Syndemic”, Emily Mendenhall and Clarence C. Gravlee in Scientific American
Emily Mendenhall and Clarence C. Gravlee analyze the conditions that made COVID a syndemic in the.…
August 26, 2021
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“The Anthropology of Health Systems: A History and Review”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors conceptualize the anthropology of health systems as a field; review the history of this body of knowledge; and outline emergent literatures on…
August 13, 2021
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“Flourishing: Migration and Health in Social Context”
Emily Mendenhall and other researchers draw on case studies from three world regions, to propose concrete steps clinicians and health institutions can take in order to better…
April 7, 2021
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“Introduction: Migration and Health in Social Context”
Emily Mendenhall and Seth M. Holmes introduce the BMJ Global Health journal's issue on “Migration and Health in Social Context”, focused on the social, political and economic…
April 7, 2021
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“On Symbols and Scripts: The Politics of the American COVID-19 Response”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors argue that, to unravel the American COVID-19 crisis —and to craft effective responses—, a more sophisticated understanding of the…
March 19, 2021
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Georgetown Now: A Conversation with Georgetown President John J. DeGioia featuring Emily Mendenhall
Conversation between Georgetown President John J. DeGioia and Emily.…
February 24, 2021
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“A Spectrum of (Dis)Belief: Coronavirus Frames in a Rural Midwestern Town in the United States”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors investigate how society in rural America reacted to the coronavirus outbreaks of 2020. Without government COVID-19 mandates, conflicting moral…
February 9, 2021
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“’Thinking Too Much’: A Systematic Review of the Idiom of Distress in Sub-Saharan Africa”
In this systematic review, Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors take a look at the idiom “thinking too much”. This idiom is employed in cultural settings worldwide to express…
January 2, 2021
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Everybody Hates Me: Let’s Talk About Stigma Podcast: Dr. Emily Mendenhall, Stigma, Syndemics and Diabetes
Emily Mendenhall discusses with host Dr. Carmen Logie the concept of syndemic, based on her global research on diabetes, HIV, violence, depression and.…
December 23, 2020