Archive: Scholarship 2019

16 Articles

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“‘Wasting Away’: Diabetes, Food Insecurity, and Medical Insecurity in the Somali Region of Ethiopia”

Emily Mendenhall and Lauren Carruth investigate rising concerns about diabetes among Somalis in eastern Ethiopia. They focus on communities where obesity is rare and people face…

March 20, 2019

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“Physician Burnout in the Modern Era”

Dr. Daniel Marchalik looks at physicians' professional stress through a historical lens. By examining different historical moments —from 19th century accounts of the …

March 2, 2019

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“The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change”

Emily Mendenhall and Merrill Singer respond to the work the The Lancet Commission on the Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate.…

February 23, 2019

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“Mysterious and Mortiferous Clouds: The Climate Cooling and Disease Burden of Late Antiquity”

Timothy Newfield inquires on the influence of climate on disease in Late Antiquity. Particular attention is paid to the Justinianic Plague, but the potential impacts of a…

February 21, 2019

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“Malaria Vaccine Trials in Pregnant Women: An Imperative Without Precedent”

Although pregnant women are highly susceptible to Plasmodium falciparum malaria, leading to substantial maternal, perinatal, and infant mortality, no trials of malaria vaccines…

February 4, 2019

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“An Ethnopsychology of Idioms of Distress in Urban Kenya”

Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors propose a preliminary model of ethnopsychology which incorporates local and global idioms of distress used by urban Kenyans to express…

January 23, 2019