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beginning in 2019. The first six-month semester of the curriculum, called Foundations in Social Medicine, includes courses in critical thinking and communication, African history and global political economy ... philosophy may work against or eclipse indigenous understandings of humanity, limiting rather than opening students’ minds to new ideas (Kaya and Seleti 2013). Additionally, in resourcelimited settings (in
disciplinary grounding in philosophy and my experience engaging with the autistic adults I have met through my research. Overall, I try to approach disability as an expected part of everyone’s lives while ... class thinks it is normal to wear bowties and go around talking about philosophy (referring, of course, to myself). The point is that normal is not the same as good or worthwhile. Not everyone wants to
-Asian hate crimes are motivated as much by the origins of COVID-19 in China as by the political, economic, and technological variables that have shaped modern China. ... engaged in stiff economic and political rivalries, culminating in rising trade tensions from 2012 to 2019. In fact, long before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the US had branded China a currency manipulator
Ellis write, “Often, research projects begin with events that turn us—our thinking, feelings, sense of self and the world—and others—our friends and families, members of our social, political, and ... finding ways to articulate that experience authentically, the use of autotheory, a term which “refers to the integration of theory and philosophy with autobiography, the body, and other so-called objective
history and philosophy of psychology, psychiatry, and mental health studies will recognize that the brain disorders debate is not an isolated event. It is more like a contemporary outbreak of a conflict ... (literature, philosophy, history, the arts, etc.), which focus on interpretive understanding? Although the question is easy to ask, finding consensus on an answer has proven to be impossible for over 100 years
students from the natural sciences into disciplines, including literature, history, and philosophy, that they might not seek out as general electives. Beginnings As leaders of F&M’s Humanities Initiative ... intersection of the arts and peacebuilding. As someone invested in artistic peacebuilding and conflict transformation, I see strategic leadership and the transformation of political challenges as work that
scientist and philosopher Benjamin Studebaker examines how ideas from ancient and contemporary philosophy, political theory, and social science can contribute to our thinking about the age-old challenge of ... -driven deaths have historically been highly sensitive to economic volatility, political instability, and rising psychosocial stress. In the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the rapid
. The ontological turn (even in psychoanalysis and philosophy) seems to have passed Lear by. Neither political, economic, or social complexities of the ethical are presented. There are no real human ... her uncle, the political leader of Thebes, that she may not bury her brother (as is cultural custom required of her) on account of his political aggression against the state. Lincoln at Gettysburg, Lear
our current vantage point, considering the intense political polarization around vaccines and around therapies that became part of the story of the COVID-19 pandemic, we can acknowledge the historical ... History Specialist, Kansas City Public Library; Alex Welborn, Head Archivist, Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center; and the reference staff of the Missouri
particular attention to issues of social justice, political context, and connections between past pandemics and Covid-19. Student responses indicate enhanced understanding of the scientific and medical aspects ... for approaching the social, political, and economic complexities of our current moment. Social justice and history One of the most striking features of students’ written comments was their engagement
not through the critical lens of an infectious disease. Instead, Houston maps out the ways in which emerging conceptions of sexual health were used by Irish political discourse as an extra-moral ... these questions, it is one of theodicy—that is, the branch of religious philosophy which states that, in a just world, bad things should happen to bad people. As we search for answers to those questions
professional aspects of physician involvement, and the political aspects of assisted dying. Crumley et al.’s (2019) work, for instance, demonstrates that public opinion polls reported in news media reflected ... MAiD as a legal, social, and political issue in Canada. Methods This paper provides a textual analysis of MAiD in Canadian digital print news media in the tradition of cultural studies (Rozanova 2010
demands of medical practice, to adopt the correct moral posture in relation to the urgency of care, and to enact a desirable ethical relation to the broader social and political context of medical practice ... called for by this training, and advocate for endurance as an alternative framework for understanding the political and ethical relations between doctors, patients and health systems. KeywordsSouth Africa
gaze partly results from economic disparities between those who fund global health research and its subjects. In other words, the gaze tends to conflate the power of political economy with the authority ... Latin America that illustrate Steinbeck’s shifting political focus. But he was not alone in using film as a tool of health persuasion in the early twentieth century. For example, the Rockefeller
and/or relations with the process of political and state organization of the nineteenth century. Such studies have shifted the problem of political stability from its traditional institutional field by ... and political spheres. This paper follows that interpretative line and proposes to advance in the analysis and characterizationof associations in the Province of Mendoza between 1852 and the turn of the
understanding of health and medical matters, especially as they recede from public memory, through the employment of available and circulating political and cultural frames. Moreover, journalistic frames in this ... for journalists in shaping public understanding of health and medical matters through the employment of available and circulating political and cultural frames. Journalists also played a role in
, Rochester, MI , USA 3 Department of Philosophy, Mathematics and Science Center, Oakland University , 146 Library Drive, Rochester, MI 48309-4479 , USA Heidi Lawrence's Vaccine Rhetorics offers a nuanced and
, 24). As a prominent political figure, Roosevelt took great measures to hide his paralysis, instructing photographers not to show him in a wheelchair or being heavily assisted in activities like getting ... perceptions about how invulnerable adults were to the virus. Roosevelt returned to his political career in 1922, eventually serving as governor of New York from 1929 until his election to the presidency in
, Health Care and Philosophy 22 ( 4 ): 531 - 43 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-019-09890-x. Whitehouse , Peter J. 1999 . “ The Ecomedical Disconnection Syndrome .” The Hastings Center Report 29 ( 1 ): 41
