Archive: Scholarship 2018

8 Articles

Scholarship

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,…

November 8, 2018

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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…

September 21, 2018

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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…

September 10, 2018

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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.…

September 8, 2018

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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”…

September 4, 2018

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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…

August 28, 2018

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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…

March 31, 2018

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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,…

January 15, 2018