Archive: Scholarship 2018
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The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society
This book, with an introduction and notes by Nicoletta Pireddu, who edited and co-translated it, is the first English collection of writings by Italian jurist, sociologist, cultural and literary critic Scipio Sighele.
Category: Scholarship
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“When We Document End-of-Life Care, Words Still Matter”
Dr. Hunter Groninger and Anne M. Kelemen highlight the findings of the study “Language Used by Health Care Professionals to Describe Dying at an Acute Care Hospital”, and how providers’ discomfort in employing clear, direct terms when talking about dying can have unintended consequences, such as miscommunication, and missed or delayed opportunities to engage in the grieving process.
Category: Scholarship
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“Looking Ahead: The Importance of Views, Values, and Voices in Neuroethics—Now”
In light of the developments the body-to-head transplant (BHT) in China, which have attracted considerable attention and criticism, Dr. James Giordano reflects about the evermore international enterprise of brain science, and the need for neuroethical discourse to include and appreciate multicultural views, values, and voices.
Category: Scholarship
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“Understanding Heartbreak: From Takotsubo to Wuthering Heights”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Daniel Marchalik discuss the poetic and medical languages to describe heartbreak.
Category: Scholarship
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“Ambiguity in End-of-Life Care Terminology—What Do We Mean by ‘Comfort Care?'”
Dr. Hunter Groninger and Anne M. Kelemen explore the ambiguity in the terminology associated with end-of-life care, highlighting the need to talk about what “comfort care” or “comfort measures” actually mean.
Category: Scholarship
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Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories. Thought on the Edge
This book, edited by Nicoletta Pireddu, and with contributors from diverse cultural and scholarly backgrounds and based in three different continents, participates in the ongoing debate about the alleged “death of theory”, proposing new areas of investigation and interpretive possibilities, reopening dialogues with past and present discourses from a plurality of perspectives and locations.
Category: Scholarship
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“Rethinking cures in Jesse Ball’s A Cure for Suicide”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Ann Jurecic delve into Jesse Ball’s A Cure for Suicide to explore the experience of loneliness in the present, and the need to better address its social and cultural causes.
Category: Scholarship
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“Post-Transplantation Palliative Care: Misconceptions and Disincentives”
Dr. Michael Pottash argues for the value of providing palliative care to transplant recipients, which faces two major barriers: misconceptions about the goals of palliative care, and the quality care outcome measures that have the unintended consequence of disincentivizing its routine use.
Category: Scholarship