Archive: Scholarship 2020
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“Professional Attitudes toward the Use of Neuromodulatory Technologies in Mexico: Insight for Neuroethical Considerations of Cultural Diversity”
James Giordano and his co-authors present their research on mental health clinicians’ and researchers’ perceptions and concerns regarding the use of neuromodulatory techniques in Mexico, as compared to those reported in the international literature, and examine if there are also specific local neuroethical, legal, socio-cultural issues relevant to such distinctions or similarities.
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“Movement for Multiple Sclerosis: A Multi-Site Partnership for Practice and Research”
Julia Langley and other researchers introduce three dance programs developed for people with multiple sclerosis (MS). Recommendations are offered to guide safe and evidence-based dance for MS practices.
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“Medical Humanities in a Pandemic: Essential and Critical”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Anna Reisman account for the invaluable insights that the humanities offer the biomedical sciences during the COVID-19 pandemic, as a means of examining themselves, their profession, and the broader social context.
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“The COVID-19 Syndemic Is Not Global: Context Matters”
In this publication, Emily Mendenhall argues that, before defining a disease like COVID-19 as a syndemic, we need to look at the context first.
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“Bats, Battiness, and the COVID-19 Pandemic”
John McNeill reflects on the ways that have made the pandemic an environmental history event.
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“Taking Pandemic Sequelae Seriously: From the Russian Influenza to COVID-19 Long-Haulers”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Mark Honigsbaum look back to the Russian influenza and the historical accounts of the sequelae to make sense of the experience of the COVID-19 long-haulers in the present.
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“Past Pandemics and Climate Variability Across the Mediterranean”
Timothy Newfield and his co-authors explore potential associations between pandemic disease and climate in Mediterranean history. They make sense of the influence that meteorological, climatological and environmental factors had on historical disease outbreaks.
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“Historical Insights on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and Racial Disparities: Illuminating a Path Forward”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan, Dr. S. Michelle Ogunwole and Dr. Lisa A. Cooper examine the racial health disparities in the historical arc of the 1918 influenza pandemic. This examination provides a understand critical structural inequities and health care gaps that have historically contributed to and continue to compound disparate health outcomes among communities of color.
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“Evaluating the Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceived Risk of COVID-19 Infection and Childhood Trauma Predict Adult Depressive Symptoms in Urban South Africa”
Emily Mendenhall, Andrew Wooyoung Kim and Tawanda Nyengerai evaluate the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Soweto, a major township in South Africa, a society where one in three individuals develops a psychiatric disorder during their life.
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“Metabolic Reflections: Blurring the Line between Trauma and Diabetes”
Emily Mendenhall argues for clinical studies of diabetes to recognize the impacts of chronic stress and trauma on metabolism. In her anthropological research, she has identified how lines between trauma and diabetes are blurred and violence and subjugation may irreversibly impact metabolism, even across generations. Thus, changes to diet and exercise alone will not solve the global and local undercurrents of the diabetes epidemic.
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