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…

December 10, 2020

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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…

November 25, 2020

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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…

November 9, 2020

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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.…

October 22, 2020

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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.…

October 13, 2020

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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…

October 12, 2020

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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…

September 19, 2020

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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…

September 15, 2020

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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…

September 8, 2020

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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…

August 24, 2020