Archive: Scholarship 2019
16 Articles
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“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…
December 16, 2019
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“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.…
December 2, 2019
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“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…
November 16, 2019
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“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…
September 21, 2019
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“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. …
September 8, 2019
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“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…
July 27, 2019
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Rethinking Diabetes
In Rethinking Diabetes, Emily Mendenhall investigates how global and local factors transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied from place to.…
July 15, 2019
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“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…
June 19, 2019
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“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…
May 25, 2019
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“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…
May 8, 2019