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Skip to content Journal Latest Top Categories Global Health Book Reviews CFPs and Conference Reports Interviews Issue Index Submissions About ‘Creative Ferment†Abortion and Reproductive Agency in Bessie Head†s Personal Choices Trilogy Posted on September 8, 2022 by Chris Pak Article Summary by Caitlin Stobie Using original archival research , this article examines representations of abortion in three novels by Bessie Head , an author who was born in South Africa and lived in Botswana for most of her life . I argue that Head documents both changing attitudes to terminations of pregnancy and dramatic environmental , medical , and sociopolitical developments during southern Africa†s liberation struggles . Instead of using discourse from contemporary debates about freedom and choice ,

The historic M ütter Museum is introducing Kate Quinn as its executive director, a new position at the 235-year-old organization. The Philadelphia-area native will oversee the Center City museum as well as the Mütter Research Institute and the Historical Medical Library at the College of Physicians of Philadel phia, the oldest independent medical library in the U.S. Quinn comes to Mütter from Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, where she was the executive director. She is also as an adjunct professor… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. 100% free.

Soon after Jessica Dempsey became director of the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) in December 2021, she was forced to focus not on the stars, but on the electric bill. ASTRON operates the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), which relies on large computer clusters to process radio astronomy data. They consume about 2000 megawatt-hours per year—the equivalent of 800 households. When Dempsey sought to renew ASTRON’s energy contracts this summer, she was shocked to find costs had tripled from 2021 levels. To keep the LOFAR running, Dempsey plans to seek emergency energy funding from the Dutch government; without it, she may have to scale back observations. “It’s certainly an existential crisis if these [price] increases continue,” she says. Surging energy prices are ...

This article offers a summary, synthesis, and highlights of processes, surveys, summits, and discussions among members of the Society for the Study of School Psychology exploring current and historical perspectives as to a potential definition of school ps... (Source: SafetyLit)

In this comparative and collaborative collection of essays we work through contemporary and historical practices of governing urban waters in Philadelphia and Mumbai. Taken together, the essays in this collection argue that events of enduring harm visited ... (Source: SafetyLit)

Railway accident prediction is of great significance for establishing an early warning mechanism and preventing the occurrences of accidents. Safety agencies rely on prediction models to design railroad risk management strategies. Based on historical railw... (Source: SafetyLit)

The political changes demanded by the countries with a colonial past in their independence processes are shaped in line with their historical realities. Demands for political change have intensified as the change of domination apparatuses and ideologies ha... (Source: SafetyLit)MedWorm Message:

: Skip to content Journal Latest Top Categories Global Health Book Reviews CFPs and Conference Reports Interviews Issue Index Submissions About In “Torlak” We Would Trust : Domestic Vaccine Production in Contemporary Serbia Posted on September 6, 2022 by Chris Pak Article Summary by Marija Brujić An overly positive memory of life in socialist Yugoslavia , called Yugonostalgia , is very dominant among the public in contemporary Serbian post-socialist society . People who used to live in former Yugoslavia still talk with pride about the quality of life during that time , including the quality of its health system and health care . In public discourse , one of the institutions that represent a signifier of Yugoslav international success in the healthcare domain is the Institute of

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Book review by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York. Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care, Dr M.R. Rajagopal, Notion Press, Chennai, India, 2022.   Walk with the Weary by Dr M.R. Rajagopal is an account of how one physician moved from a career in anesthesiology to a lifetime mission [...] Read More... The post Building Compassionate Communities appeared first on Medical Humanities.

Skip to content Journal Latest Top Categories Global Health Book Reviews CFPs and Conference Reports Interviews Issue Index Submissions About The Impostor Nurse and the Charlatan Doctor Posted on August 30, 2022 by Chris Pak Film Review by Khalid Ali , Film and Media Correspondent ‘Face and Back†Weish wa Dhahr TV mini-series directed by Mariam Abou Ouf , Egypt , 2022 available on https : shahid.mbc.net ar Arabic with English subtitles The health of any society is strongly influenced by the socioeconomic status , and cultural , and spiritual beliefs of its population . These factors inform the attitudes and behaviours of individuals towards health and healthcare providers . Before I recount the plot of the thought-provoking ‘Face and Back†I would like to introduce the reader to the

. Home About MedWorm Health News Specialties Conditions Cancers Infec . Diseases Procedures Therapies Nutrition Drugs Vaccines Management Training Countries any words all words exact phrase advanced f29c Advanced search can include the : following OR operator : NOT operators : OR phrase search : breast cancer AND is implied so listing two words without another operator will search for records where both words are . present use to group words : together eg . cancer cancers cervical cervix Squamous cell carcinoma SCC will return records where either the words cancer' or cancers' are present , plus the words cervical' or cervix' , but not the phrase squamous cell carcinoma' or . SCC' order operator : word1 eg . chronic leukaemia here the word chronic' must come somewhere before either the

‘Moment of truth’ for the UN, says PM Kishida as he urges reform to address ‘the historical injustice against Africa’. #kishida #unsecuritycouncil (Source: Reuters: Health)

Home About MedWorm Health News Specialties Conditions Cancers Infec . Diseases Procedures Therapies Nutrition Drugs Vaccines Management Training Countries any words all words exact phrase advanced f29c Advanced search can include the : following OR operator : NOT operators : OR phrase search : breast cancer AND is implied so listing two words without another operator will search for records where both words are . present use to group words : together eg . cancer cancers cervical cervix Squamous cell carcinoma SCC will return records where either the words cancer' or cancers' are present , plus the words cervical' or cervix' , but not the phrase squamous cell carcinoma' or . SCC' order operator : word1 eg . chronic leukaemia here the word chronic' must come somewhere before either the work

This week, columnist Marina Hyde asks why all the blame for the sewage dumping scandal is pointed towards politicians and not the water company bosses (1m50s), writer Sam Parker on the Gen Z entrepreneurs who are turning their backs on office nine to fives and turning their personal passions into full-time jobs (9m20s), historian Lucy Worsley on whether best-selling author, Agatha Christie, really did go into hiding to frame her husband for murder (26m06s), and finally, neuroscientist and psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett asks: can we really tell what animals are feeling, or are we merely projecting? (43min19)Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)

Skip to content Journal Latest Top Categories Global Health Book Reviews CFPs and Conference Reports Interviews Issue Index Submissions About What is an Adverse Event in a Clinical Trial Posted on August 25, 2022 by Chris Pak Blog by Thomas Milovac Kow and colleagues have recently addressed the lack of quality in reporting adverse events AEs in trials of remdesivir , basing their analysis on guidelines recommended by the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials CONSORT 1 For example , none of the trials defined an AE , and only one trial noted how researchers collected AE related data . Such lack of transparency in clinical trials makes it reasonable to ask : What is an adverse event The trial for another Covid-19 antiviral heightens the relevance of this question . Hammond and

Popular navigation applications and services optimize routes based on either distance or time, disregarding drivers' preferences when suggesting routes. Various unknown circumstances may affect users' travel behaviors between two locations on the road netw... (Source: SafetyLit)

Crowdsourced mobile applications such as Waze can provide real-time and historical data about roadway conditions, when and where users are active. In a previous study, we demonstrated that statewide crash models based on integrated Waze, traffic volume, ce... (Source: SafetyLit)MedWorm Message:

: Skip to content Journal Latest Top Categories Global Health Book Reviews CFPs and Conference Reports Interviews Issue Index Submissions About The Song of Our Scars : Exploring the Social and Scientific Fundamentals of Chronic Pain Posted on August 23, 2022 by Chris Pak Book Review by Vishal Khetpal The Song of Our Scars : The Untold Story of Pain . Haider Warraich . Basic Books . ISBN 9781541675308. Skim through any bestseller list in adult non-fiction these days and you will find books that grapple with pain and chronic illness . Bessel van der Kolk†s The Body Keeps Score maps the landscape of traumatic stress and ways to control it Ross Douthat†s The Deep Places shares the aches and pains of chronic Lyme disease Meghan O†Rourke†s The Invisible Kingdom recently reviewed in this

Professors say two islands in Cardigan Bay are clearly marked on the Gough map held at Bodleian libraryIt is believed to be the Welsh Atlantis, a lost land lying below the water at Cardigan Bay. For at least 800 years, tales have been told of the legend of Cantre ’r Gwaelod, but evidence that it really existed has been scant.Now, a medieval map depicting two islands off the Ceredigion coast provides some proof that the legend may be rooted in historical fact, according to a BBC report.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)

: Skip to content Journal Latest Top Categories Global Health Book Reviews CFPs and Conference Reports Interviews Issue Index Submissions About Body Talk : “Corporeal Pedagogies” with Dr Sally Waite and Dr Olivia Turner Posted on August 18, 2022 by Chris Pak Podcast with Dr . Sally Waite and Dr . Olivia Turner In this podcast episode , Drs . Sally Waite and Olivia Turner share what it means to do “corporeal pedagogy,” a form of learning and teaching that suspends conventional modes of Western education , particularly within a university setting , to facilitate embodied and haptic learning and productions of . knowledge A transcript of the podcast will be published . shortly Listen to the Podcast on : Soundcloud Dr Sally Waite : I am a Classical Archaeologist working to develop and

Book Review by Professor Robert Abrams, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care, Dr M.R. Rajagopal, Notion Press, Chennai, India, 2022. Walk with the Weary by Dr M.R. Rajagopal is an account of how one physician moved from a career in anesthesiology to a lifetime mission in [...] Read More... The post Building Compassionate Communities appeared first on Medical Humanities.

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This paper documents the historical steps of the immediate reactions of the United Nations, Amnesty International, the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Inter-American Com-mission on Human Rights, and lawyers' or-ganisations in support of the victims of... (Source: SafetyLit)

Torture is a technique used in Brazil since colonization to control the masses. Although there are norms that prohibit this practice, it continues to be used for the same purpose. The text addresses the similarities between these historical times based on ... (Source: SafetyLit)

This article discusses the constitution of the homicide as a public problem, analyzing its perception on journalistic reports from different historical moments until the emergency of the Maps of Violence. Based on the case of the state of Esp írito Santo, ... (Source: SafetyLit)MedWorm Message: Have you tried our new medical search engine? More powerful than before. 100% free.