Archive: Scholarship 2022
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“Syndemics and Clinical Science”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors discuss the emergence of syndemics, how epidemics interact, and what scientists, clinicians and policymakers can do with this information.
Category: Scholarship
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“Healing on Credit: Medical Bills and the Politics of Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Pondichéry”
This article presents part of the research Jakob Burnham has been conducting in his 2021-2022 Medical Humanities Research Fellowship, which explores the centrality of medical professionals to France’s colonial empire. It focuses on what medical bills can tell us about the history of French colonialism in India.
Category: Scholarship
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Sea and Land: An Environmental History of the Caribbean
This book, co-authored by John McNeill, Philip J. Morgan, Matthew Mulcahy, and Stuart B. Schwartz, delves into the environment and ecology of the Caribbean, exploring issues concerning natural resources, conservation, epidemiology, and climate.
Category: Scholarship
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“Vaccination Disagreement Between Parents”
Dr. James Giordano addresses the ethical dilemma faced by physicians when, for the decision of vaccinating children, find parents with opposite wishes.
Category: Scholarship
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“All Ethics Is Global: New Neuroethics in a Multipolar and Multicultural World”
Dr. James Giordano and Dr. John R. Shook explore the issues that the globalization process poses on neuroethics.
Category: Scholarship
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“Outbreak: Contagion and Culture in the Victorian Era: Introduction”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Kari Nixon introduce the Journal of Victorian Culture’s Rountable on “Outbreak: Contagion and Culture in the Victorian Era”, which asks how the Victorians approached contagion, examining the ways in which it became such a central preoccupation for a society already fixated upon health and illness and the transactions between life and death.
Category: Scholarship
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“An Extraordinary Sequel: The ‘Russian’ Influenza and Enduring Sequelae in Victorian Culture”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan examines the ‘Russian’ influenza pandemic’s enduring cultural and biosocial impact.
Category: Scholarship
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Unmasked
In this book, Emily Mendenhall writes about what happened in her hometown, Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the economy occurred in the COVID summer of 2020. State political failures, local negotiations among political and public health leaders, and community (dis)belief about the virus resulted in Okoboji being declared a hotspot just before the Independence Day weekend, when an influx of half a million people visit the town.
Category: Scholarship
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“The Need for Modernization of Biosecurity in the Post-COVID World”
Dr. James Giordano explores different questions related to biosecurity, when doing research on dangerous pathogens, in the context of the pandemic.
Category: Scholarship
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“Palaeoecological Data Indicates Land-Use Changes Across Europe Linked to Spatial Heterogeneity in Mortality During the Black Death Pandemic”
Timothy Newfield and his co-authors write about their application of a pioneering new approach, ‘big data palaeoecology’ to evaluate the scale of the Black Death’s mortality on a regional scale across Europe using palynological data.
Category: Scholarship