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Maxson, Brian. "Review of Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6203.

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This work offers an interdisciplinary study of preventative health in 16th and 17th century Italy. Previous studies on the practice and prescription of early modern preventative health are few, and scholars have tended to assume that medical understanding of the body's humors remained relatively static during this period.
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D’Amato, Gianni. "Renaissance des Bürgers." Universität Potsdam, 2011. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2013/6344/.

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Hattori, Natsu. "Performing cures : practice and interplay in theatre and medicine of the English Renaissance." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284234.

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Hughes, Sarah Elizabeth. "An interdisciplinary unit on the Renaissance." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1277.

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Mihindou, Piekielele Eugenia Tankiso. "The African Renaissance and gender : finding the feminist voice /." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1113.

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Maxson, Brian Jeffrey. "The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. http://amzn.com/1107043913.

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This book offers a major contribution for understanding the spread and appeal of the humanist movement in Renaissance Florence. Investigating the connections between the individuals who were part of the humanist movement, Brian Jeffrey Maxson reconstructs the networks that bound them together. Overturning the problematic categorization of humanists as either professional or amateurs, a distinction based on economics and the production of original works in Latin, he offers a new way of understanding how the humanist movement could incorporate so many who were illiterate in Latin, but who nonetheless were responsible for an important intellectual and cultural paradigm shift. The book demonstrates the massive appeal of the humanist movement across socio-economic and political groups and argues that the movement became so successful and so widespread because by the 1420s¬-30s the demands of common rituals began requiring humanist speeches. Over time, deep humanist learning became more valuable in the marketplace of social capital, which raised the status of the most learned humanists and helped disseminate humanist ideas beyond Florence.
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Bhikha, Rashid Ahmed Hassen. "African Renaissance in health education : developing an integrative programme of Unani- Tibb training for health care professionals in Southern Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&amp.

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The present healthcare system in South Africa suffers from a number of serious deficiencies. Whilst orthodox bio-medicine is well established in most first world countries, its total introduction and implementation into all communities within South Africa faces many obstacles. The cost of diagnostic techniques, investigative procedures and pharmaceutical products, the availability of competent medical staff in the non-urban areas, and the lack of acceptance of the philosophy and practice of orthodox bio-medicine in rural regions are but some of the factors which conspire against the general application of this orthodox medical paradigm.

Another problem confronting healthcare and medical practice in South Africa, particularly at this stage of our historical development, is the absolute focus on orthodox bio-medicine, often to the detriment of other medical paradigms that also have advantages to offer. Can the integration of another medical paradigm, such as Unani-Tibb, enhance the practice of orthodox bio-medicine in this country?

The aim of the thesis was to investigate the possibility of integrating Unani-Tibb with orthodox biomedicine (also termed conventional, Western or allopathic medicine) and assess its potential for improving delivery of an effective, affordable and appropriate healthcare system in South Africa.

The research questions which the thesis seeks to answer is whether this integration is possible and whether the delivery of healthcare to the South African population can be enhanced. Changes in the provision of medical education are necessary, and occupy a pivotal role in allowing for this integration. Unani-Tibb is a traditional medical system practiced extensively on the Indian sub-continent and in other parts of the world. At present, however, it is minimally practiced in South Africa. Its primary principle is the energetic promotion of health maintenance behaviour and the prevention of disease, through effective application of dietotherapy, pharmacotherapy and other interventions, as well as the empowerment of the patient towards adopting behavioural changes and lifestyle adaptations. One positive aspect of Unani-Tibb is that it has many features in common with both orthodox biomedicine and African Traditional medicine. These commonalities should allow for greater acceptance by orthodox healthcare professionals, as well as the general population. The first part of the study involved the research and conceptualisation required for the production of a series of customized training modules which introduced the theory and practice of Unani-Tibb. A twelve month part-time training programme based on these modules was subsequently conducted with a number of healthcare professionals presently in active practice and with a background of orthodox medical or nursing healthcare. This outcomes-based training programme included a number of specifically designed training activities, such as case studies, practical exercises and assignments. Appropriate evaluations and assessments were pursued in order to measure performance outcomes and attitudes. Questionnaires for assessing the motivation and satisfaction of the participants were also completed. The second part of the study was in the form of a pilot participant research project, in which the participants applied the information from the integrative programme to a number of chronically ill patients who had previously been treated with standard orthodox bio-medical procedures. The parameters derived for clinical efficacy, cost-benefit and improvement in Quality of Life from Unani-Tibb treatment were then compared to equivalent results obtained by orthodox bio-medicine. In all parameters inspected, the integrative training programme compared favourably to orthodox bio-medical practice. Not only was there an improved clinical efficacy, but the cost-benefit was shown to be superior in most indices measured. The Quality of Life comparison, which assessed the patient&rsquo
s total health status, subjective behaviour and attitude, generally favoured the integrative training programme. The thesis serves to suggest that the integration of Unani-Tibb into orthodox bio-medical training in South Africa is a distinct possibility, and could ultimately allow for treatment which is clinically acceptable, cost-effective and which provides an improved Quality of Life for the population as a whole. I suggest that this pilot study be repeated more extensively, thereby allowing for a more confident and objective assessment.

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Logan, Gabriella Berti. "Italian women in science from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0018/NQ46531.pdf.

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McCray, William Patrick. "The culture and technology of glass in Renaissance Venice." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/290650.

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Venetian glass, especially that of the Renaissance, has been admired for centuries due to its quality workmanship and overall visual appeal. In addition, a certain mystique surrounds the glassmakers of Venice and their products. This dissertation research undertakes a comprehensive view of the culture and technology of Renaissance Venetian glass and glassmaking. Particular attention is paid to luxury vessel glass, especially those made of the "colorless" material typically referred to as cristallo. This segment of the industry is seen as the primary locus of substantial technological change. The primary question examined in this work is the nature of this technological change, specifically that observed in the Renaissance Venetian glass industry circa 1450-1550. After providing an appropriate social and economic context, a discussion of Venice's glass industry in the pre-Renaissance is given. Industry and guild trends and conditions which would be influential in later centuries are identified. In addition, the sudden expansion of Venice's glass production in the mid-15th century is described as a self-catalyzed phenomenon in response to prevailing cultural and economic conditions. Demand is identified as a necessary precursor to the production of luxury glass. Building on this concept, activities and behaviors relevant to demand, production, and distribution of Venetian glass are examined in depth. The interaction between the Renaissance consumer and producer is treated along with the position of Venice's glass industry in the overall culture and economy of the city. It is concluded that the technological changes observed in Venice's Renaissance luxury glass industry arose primarily out of perceived consumer demand. Social and economic circumstances particular to Renaissance Italy created an environment in which a technological development such as cristallo glass could take place. The success of the industry in the 15th and 16th centuries can be found in the fruitful interplay between consumers and producers, the manner in which the industry was organized, coupled with the skill of the Venetian glassmakers to make and work new glass compositions into a variety of desired objects.
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Harari, Yuval Noah. "Renaissance military memoirs : war, history, and identity, 1450-1600 /." Woodbridge : Boydell Press, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb392083492.

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Texte remanié de: Th. Ph. D.--Oxford--Jesus College, 2002. Titre de soutenance : History and I : war and the relations between history and personal identity in Renaissance military memoirs, c. 1450-1600.
Bibliogr. p. 205-218. Index.
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Hodgins, Gregory W. L. "Investigating methods of identifying pre-Renaissance artists' paints and glues." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310530.

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Lang, Heinrich. "Der "zivile" Krieg : Ordnungskonzepte zwischen städtischer Gesellschaft und Söldnerführern im Italien der Renaissance." Universität Potsdam, 2006. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/2101/.

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Behandelte Themen sind: Einführung: unklare Zuordnungen; Institutionen zwischen den condotteri und ihren Auftraggebern; Gewaltmarkt; Ordnungen zwischen den condottieri und ihren Auftraggebern; Integration der condottieri in zivile Ordnungen
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Besson, Alain. "Classification in private library catalogues of the English Renaissance, 1500-1640." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1988. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1349431/.

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Library inventories are widely acknowledged for their importance in intellectual history, but there are few detailed studies of library classification in this context. The discussion centres on the inventories of 36 English private libraries from 1521 to 1640, with a view to understanding what could have prompted a compiler to adopt one system of arrangement instead of another. Nine of the inventories are transcribed from unpublished manuscripts, including lists of the books of William Paget, 4th Baron Paget (1617), William Somner (1639), and a previously unidentified catalogue of the books of the physician William Rant (1595). The classification of books was a matter of some concern at the time: the problems raised by library classification were beginning to attract the attention of writers on the subject, and a compiler's approach was not always as haphazard as it may seem at first. On the whole, however, the classification of books was more spontaneous than deliberate, and it is for this reason that it was often finely attuned to the professional concerns and personal interests of owners, as well as to the cultural climate of the time (religious controversies, interest in languages other than Latin). The medieval trivium was losing its momentum in the classifications of the period, and mathematics, for centuries associated with the quadrivium in classifications, was viewed in a new light under the influence of Neo-Platonism. New trends in library classification appeared side by side with age-long practices, thereby underscoring the deeply transitional nature of the period.
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Pienaar, Gary. "Human rights in Africa : will the African renaissance strengthen the international normative order?" Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52879.

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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The South African Presidency has played a significant part in championing the African Renaissance vision. Elements of the vision attracting most attention are its supposed recognition of the importance to continental revival of peace, stability and 'good governance' (including respect for the rule oflaw and fundamental human rights). The question is whether the vision is able to live up to the hope that it signals new respect by the governors for the human rights of the governed. The fear has been expressed that the continent's Renaissance is being crippled in its infancy by an excessively cautious South African interpretation of the vision, particularly in regard to human rights issues. Ex-President Nelson Mandela has urged that, while governments should be mindful of the high ideals of human rights, they should be conscious also of a democratic realism that surrounds the issue. Neglect of human rights is the certain recipe for internal and international disaster. Mandela has called for a "more comprehensive international policy of 'democratic realism' to replace the traditional concept of 'realism'''. The policy suggests the protection of diversity both within and between states. Consequently, consideration is given to options for the promotion, deepening and defence of 'democracy' as a reliable bulwark against the abuse of human rights. Foremost among the options considered is armed humanitarian intervention, including its possible purposes and effects and, particularly, the reliability and durability of its outcomes. John Stuart Mill's arguments are examined concerning the vital necessity of domestic readiness to best utilise any assistance arising from external intervention. If Mill's thesis is correct, then President Thabo Mbeki' s approach may be the most appropriate in the circumstances. Devising agreed policies on intervention in African countries where human rights abuses are intensifying continues to face significant political resistance based on the prioritisation of the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state. Mbeki clearly understands African leaders' caution regarding human rights promotion and protection. National sovereignty is difficult to surrender in a world of weak allies and strong competitors, which ensure continued state resistance to foreign guidance on democracy and human rights. South African foreign policy suggests a sober reckoning of the complexity and duration of the task of turning around the continental ship. South African foreign policy, initially idealistically seen as occupying the 'moral high ground' following the 'democratic miracle' of 1994, is now more firmly rooted in a 'realist' understanding of the primary need for committed and dependable allies, and sensitive to allegations of hegemonic aspirations. Mbeki, consequently, follows a non-confrontational consensus-building process, ensuring that as many African leaders as possible 'buy in' to the vision and its programme of implementation. He focuses instead on 'educating' and 'encouraging' domestic populations to object to current experiences of forms of rights deprivation. While time-consuming, it may at least produce a solidly grounded policy approach to the amelioration of the continent's ills.
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Vaananen, Katrina Victoria. "Renaissance Reception of Classical Poetry in Fracastoro’s Morbus Gallicus." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1506444910819066.

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Wahlberg, Ayo. "Modernisation and its side effects : an inquiry into the revival and renaissance of herbal medicine in Vietnam and Britain." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2006. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/298/.

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Herbal medicine has experienced tangible revivals in both Vietnam and the United Kingdom since the mid-20th century, as reflected in sales of herbal medicinal products, numbers of users and the availability of training opportunities for aspiring herbalists. In both countries, this revival came on the back of more or less concerted official efforts to discourage and even ban the practice and use of herbal medicine, by colonial authorities (in Vietnam) or professional medical associations and regulatory bodies (in the UK). Utilising archaeological and genealogical methods as developed by Canguilhem, Foucault and others, this study seeks to account for these revivals by pursuing three particular lines of analysis. Firstly, by describing the formations of power-knowledge relations which have allowed Vietnamese and British herbal medicine to challenge biomedical monopolies in the latter half of the 20th century, it is argued that the ways in which ‘quackery’ is conceptualised and regulated against in both countries today, has undergone substantial transformations. Secondly, by identifying the techniques of truth making which either suggest or contest a superior efficacy (over placebo) for two particular herbal medicines in the treatment of depression (in the UK) and addiction (in Vietnam), the study demonstrates how the concept of ‘efficacy’ not only pertains to bio-physiological effects but also to the symbolic effects of the treatments in question. Finally, by asking what kind of ‘life’ herbal medicine is seen to be affecting, it is suggested that longevity has been joined by quality of life as a separate, yet inherently interlinked, therapeutic site. One of the key conclusions of the dissertation is, that the sub-disciplines of medical anthropology and sociology have played a crucial role in the 20th century births of ‘traditional medicine’ and ‘complementary and alternative medicine’ (as opposed to ‘primitive’ and ‘fringe’ medicine). Firstly, in diagnosing a ‘crisis of modern medicine’ by highlighting its dehumanising and toxifying effects, and secondly, in providing a theory of symbolic efficacy which could help explain the continued importance of what had in the past been written off as ‘esoteric’ or ‘backward’ healing practices. As a consequence, the study describes how an ongoing governmentalisation of human subjectivities has been a requisite side effect of modernisation in the recent revival and renaissance of herbal medicine in Vietnam and the United Kingdom.
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Denys, Catherine. "Die Renaissance der Militärgeschichte der frühen Neuzeit in Frankreich : eine historiographische Bilanz der Jahre 1945-2005." Universität Potsdam, 2007. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2008/2110/.

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Behandelte Themen sind: Die drei Phasen der Militärgeschichte in Frankreich seit 1945; Die verhaltene Aufnahme der „Militärischen Revolution“ in Frankreich; Die Geschichte der Schlacht als Beispiel des Wandels; Auswahlbibliographie (in chronlogischer Reihenfolge)
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Le, Nen Dominique. "Renaissance de la main aux XVème - XVIème siècles : une communion entre art et science." Nantes, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005NANT2113.

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Headley, Cynthia Marie. "The Temporary Nature of Health: The Humoral Body in Early Modern Drama." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/222851.

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The Temporary Nature of Health: The Humoral Body in Early Modern Drama explores the ways in which drama, political theory, and travel accounts deploy metaphors and practices generated by the humoral body to provide an account for living in a postlapsarian world. This project's interdisciplinary approach builds on the work of Gail Paster and Valerie Traub and analyzes the ways in which understandings of the body both inflect and are inflected by culture. Chapter one, "'Letting' Blood: The Impossibility of Social Health and Stability in Shakespeare and Cary," focuses on metonyms and metaphors of blood, using both Richard II and Elizabeth Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam. Both plays challenge the notion that blood as bloodline metonymically means character fitness and the ability to rule. Chapter two, "The Failure of Authority: Medical Practitioners and Heads of State in The Winter's Tale, All's Well that Ends Well, and Measure for Measure," argues that these plays' central characters fail as healers in their attempts to find balance and stability for others, usually through the comedic conventional ending of marriage. Chapter three, "Pastoral's Temporary Healing: Elizabethan-Jacobean Comedies, Tragicomedies, and Travel Accounts," uses pastoral dramas such as Mary Wroth's Love's Victorie, John Fletcher's The Faithful Shepherdess, and Shakespeare's As You Like It, as well as travel accounts such as Walter Ralegh's A Discourse Concerning Western Planting. This chapter examines the relationship among pastoral drama, humoral understanding of the body, and travel accounts.
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Khoury, Shaadi. "Instituting Renaissance| The Early Work of the Arab Academy of Science in Damascus, 1919-1930." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10010879.

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This dissertation examines the career of the Arab Academy of Science in Damascus roughly over its first formative decade, from 1919 to 1930. It situates the Academy’s work in relation to concerns about language modernization characteristic of the Nahda, or Modern Arab Renaissance, and in the context of great changes in the political and social order of the Middle East. It highlights the ways the pioneering Levantine man of letters Jurji Zaydan sought to reconcile indigenous traditions of linguistic thought with modern concepts of evolutionary change and historicism in the development of a new science of language and the cultivation of a new kind of scholarly elite, from the late nineteenth century to the eve of the First World War. This dissertation also analyzes Arab Academy founding member ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Maghribi’s wide-ranging writings in matters of religion, politics, ethics, and language. Al-Maghribi wrote on behalf of the Islamic and Arab umam or communities, as well as for a constitutional Ottoman caliphate around the time of the Young Turk Revolution of 1908. The educability of the public was central to his vision as ordinary believers and Arabic-speakers became the population of the new national state of Syria following the Ottomans’ defeat in 1918. This project demonstrates how the three succeeding political orders over the territory that would become modern Syria influenced the thought of the founding members of the Academy in Damascus and contributed to the life of their institution: the late Ottoman state, the Amir Faysal’s short-lived Arabist kingdom in the aftermath of the First World War, and the imposition of the French Mandate for Syria from 1920. It argues that the late Ottoman Empire and its revolutionary and constitutional moment imparted qualities of ecumenicalism and worldliness, and that the Academy shared a spirit of experimentation and standardization with the Faysali and Mandatory regimes. Finally, this project turns to the relations of Arab Academy founding members, notably of their president Muhammad Kurd ‘Ali, with the Western orientalist scholars elected as corresponding members of their company. It chronicles how Arab and European scholars of Islam and Arabic collaborated in producing a body of knowledge and a discourse of friendship in their shared area of study, characterized by both sympathetic and objective norms. It argues that the Arab Academicians and their Western colleagues collectively sketched the contours of a globalized discussion of Nahda, history, and modernity in the quasi-colonial context of French Mandate Syria.

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Polaha, Jodi. "Implementation Science for Pediatrician Innovators." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6657.

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Gebreiter, Florian. "Making medicine calculable : hospital costing between the art and the science of medicine." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538735.

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Levine, Andrew. "Conceited Souls and Renaissance Cures: Sympathetic Magic Between Bodies in Shakespeare's Hamlet." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2020. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8414.

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Using the sixteenth-century theories of sympathies to examine the inter-character relationships in Hamlet, I argue for a period reading that offers insight into Hamlet’s delay and the basis for his problematic relationships with Gertrude and Ophelia. Asserting Hamlet’s character as an observer in the play with the ultimate goal of healing the infected state of Denmark, this examination of Hamlet explores how sympathetic healing would function between the characters of Hamlet, the Ghost, Gertrude, and Ophelia. Such a reading would present these characters as vulnerable bodies capable of directly affecting each other over a physical distance. Hamlet’s ultimate tragedy then would arise from his failures to engage with these sympathetic forces effectively, resulting in his inability to find the proper cure for his state.
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Hanna, Bridget Corbett. "Toxic Relief: Science, Uncertainty, and Medicine after Bhopal." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11346.

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This dissertation is a study of science and medicine after the gas disaster in1984 in Bhopal, India. It looks at the discourses, debates, suspicions, and entangled events that have shaped the narratives of causality following the catastrophe, and the ways that ideas about relief, treatment, and illness have been constructed by experts, lay activists, and survivors. In it I address the issues of suspicion, research, and power by looking at the "cyanide controversy" in the early years after the disaster, and at the ways that the consequences of uncertainty affect patients and doctors within the hospital system designed to provide "gas relief" in the aftermath. I also describe the range of ways gas survivors have categorized and produced as subjects and citizens through an analysis of epidemiological, legal, and political discussions. I take on the history of medical research after the event, and show how a vast corpus of scientific work has remained dispersed and underutilized, leaving room for sometimes-dangerous narratives of certain illness or death. Finally, I look at the consequences of this indeterminacy for care and healing. I assess access to treatments, the diversity of medical care, the undermining of the status of the gas exposed, and the ways that detoxification has been approached through notions of dosage, potency, and traditional medicine. I produce a sociology of knowledge about the catastrophe and contribute to literatures on the problem of epistemic uncertainty and risk after disasters, the production of medicalized subjects, and the politicization of knowledge. I argue that interventions that have tried to encompass the disaster within a unitary framework have been persistently inadequate, and illustrate how attempts to reduce or subsume the consequences of the disaster - through recourse to scientific indeterminacy, under reductionist legal mechanisms, by imprecise categorization schema, within flawed research methodologies, and among hollow medical infrastructures - have not only failed to meaningfully represent it but also resulted in predictable forms of reductionist violence and social suffering, through obfuscation as often as through action.
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Macaulay, Michael James. "Pansophia and perfection : the nature of utopia in the early seventeenth century." Thesis, Durham University, 2001. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1657/.

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Villers, Aurélie. "La planète Mars dans la littérature de science-fiction américaine des années 1990 : renaissance d'un monde : thèse." Nice, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005NICE2005.

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Les années 1990 ont vu un regain d'intérêt de la science-fiction américaine pour la planète Mars qu'elle avait délaissée depuis plus d'un demi-siècle. Il est en grande partie dû aux avancées technologiques récentes qui ont permis d'avoir des images de la planète. Ces photographies ont imposé aux auteurs un paysage stérile qui dicte leurs intrigues et appelle des comparaisons avec la Frontière américaine. Mais Mars convoque d'autres mythes (terrestres et endémiques) qui révèlent un intérêt pour le passé au moins aussi considérable que le goût de la prospective. Toutefois, la Terre, double, copie ou repoussoir, n'est jamais bien loin
The 1990s' American science fiction showed a renewed interest in the planet Mars it had been ignoring for half a century. It is mainly due to recent technological progress which gave us images of the planet. A barren landscape directing their story was then forced upon the writers. It also compelled comparisons with the American Frontier. But Mars conjures up other myths (both Terran and endemic) betraying a concern in the past almost as big as a taste for what may come. Yet the Earth – a double, a copy or a foil – always stands close by
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Osouf, Nicolas. "The potential for a nuclear renaissance : the development of nuclear power under climate change mitigation policies." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40298.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Science and Engineering, 2007.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-115).
Anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases are very likely to have already changed the Earth's climate, and will continue to change it for centuries if no action is taken. Nuclear power, a nearly carbon-free source of electricity, could contribute significantly to climate change mitigation by replacing conventional fossil-fueled electricity generation technologies. To examine the potential role of nuclear power, an advanced nuclear technology representing Generation III reactors is introduced into the Emissions Predictions and Policy Analysis economic model, which projects greenhouse gas and other air pollutant emissions as well as climate policy costs. The model is then used to study how the cost and availability of nuclear power affect the economy and the environment at the global scale. A literature review shows that estimates of nuclear power costs vary widely, because of differences in both calculation methods and cost parameters. Based on a sensitivity analysis, the most important parameters are the discount rate, the overnight cost, the capacity factor and the economic lifetime. The methodological differences affect not only the absolute power costs, but also the relative costs among electricity generation technologies.
(cont.) Acknowledging this uncertainty, a levelized cost model leads to bus-bar cost scenarios ranging from $35/MWh to $60/MWh. Cap-and-trade climate policies strengthen the development of nuclear power in the high nuclear cost scenarios. In low-cost cases, nuclear power grows significantly even without climate policies, which have little further influence on the market share of nuclear power. Lower costs of nuclear power decrease the costs of climate policies: the consumption NPV loss due to a 550ppm climate policy is reduced by 36% if nuclear costs are reduced from the highest to the lowest scenario. Nuclear power development at the largest scale projected would involve the depletion of currently known conventional and phosphate uranium deposits. Environmental benefits of the development of competitive nuclear power include a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, even if no climate policy is implemented. For example, CO2 emissions decrease by 32% in 2050 in the lowest nuclear cost scenario. Conventional pollutant emissions are also reduced: NOx and SO2 emissions decrease by 14% and 24% in 2050.
(cont.) The economic value of the political decision to keep the nuclear option open is evaluated to range between $1,300 billion and $17,600 billion, in terms of consumption NPV loss, depending on the climate policy regime. These benefits should eventually be weighed against the proliferation, waste and safety issues associated with further development of nuclear power.
by Nicolas Osouf.
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Derkatch, Colleen Joan. "Rhetorical boundaries in the "new science" of alternative medicine." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14201.

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This dissertation investigates scientific studies of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as episodes of scientific boundary work: these studies shift, and then seek to fix, the boundaries between what counts as proper medical science and what does not. Rhetoric scholars have mapped sites of boundary work both in science and in various CAM practices, but there is still some question of how biomedicine itself responds to challenges to its borders—and, by extension, challenges to its social and epistemic authority. This dissertation examines the rhetorical constituents of biomedical boundary work by analyzing a corpus of CAM-themed special issues of the journals of the American Medical Association from 1998, in which members of the medical profession consider the implications of including under biomedicine’s purview health practices formerly considered outside it. The project examines this corpus, and responses published in both medical and popular outlets, to illuminate some of the ways in which members of a culturally dominant profession evaluate medical therapies in the face of disciplinary unrest, both within and beyond the borders of their profession. The chapters move from contexts internal to medicine to those external, mapping, sequentially, the historical-professional, epistemological, clinical, and popular dimensions of biomedical boundary work. The project aims to provide a more nuanced, stratified account of the rhetorical negotiation of medical and scientific boundaries. Its main claim is that, despite the willingness of many medical researchers and practitioners to elide distinctions between mainstream and alternative medicine, this research on CAM, and its related activities (i.e., publication, clinical practice), ultimately strengthen those distinctions and expand science’s authority in medicine.
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Futterer, Patricia. "Cultural studies of science : skinning bodies in Western medicine." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23332.

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This thesis explores the cultural implications underlying the medical practice of cutting human flesh. The examination focuses, in particular, on the function of representational technologies--from anatomy sketches to computer imaging--in the scientific understanding of the body in the West. By foregrounding the technologies of representation which inform and have directed a history of surgery, it is hoped that the cultural aspects of modern medicine will be made apparent. This thesis argues that while science benefitted from art to construct its image of 'the' body, it has had to rid itself of art in order to justify its empirical claims. The study concludes with a discussion of the work of the French performance artist Orlan who uses plastic surgery in a performative setting to deconstruct these very claims.
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Veiga, Paula. "Health and Medicine in ancient Egypt; magic and science." Thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/71526.

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Health was a constant concern in life and even the deceased needed extra care so they can be at their prime when closed in the sarcophagus, in the possession of magical ‘weapons’ so that, when they would reach the Afterlife, they would be in the complete possession of all their physical abilities. Medicine in ancient Egypt was trying to restrain all malefic beings from action and to preserve the well-being of the individual. Thus the initial statement that magic and science were one and only, a sole concept, represented by heka. Through this work, all descriptions and conceptions observed in the existing legacy of ancient Egypt will lead to conclusions that attest this unique duality, if we can name it.
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Schepper, Susanna L. B. de. "'Foreign' books for English readers : published translations of navigation manuals and their audience in the English Renaissance, 1500-1640." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/51655/.

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Although there has been an increasing interest in the study of Renaissance translations and the early world of print, the history of navigation and exploration has not been the subject of any such in-depth bibliographical research. This thesis identifies and analyses a corpus of translated navigation manuals and related works that were printed in England between 1500 and 1640. The context is sketched by defining the different areas of maritime writing found in Renaissance England. Although English contributions were particularly strong in such topics as the mathematical side of navigation, the technical instruments and the debates about magnetism and compass variation, publications of manuals and sailing directions were scarce. This thesis reveals that such knowledge was imported from continental Europe through translation. Forty-three translations out of seven different source languages are discussed from a book-historical perspective to establish what their source text was, how they came to England and who was responsible for translating and publishing them. Such information was obtained, in part, from a study of the paratexts, in particular the translators’ and publishers’ dedications and addresses to the reader, which show the reason and purpose of the translations, the methods employed and particular problems encountered, as well certain linguistic and rhetorical characteristics. One work is selected as a case-study for in-depth research, namely Martin Cortés’s Breue compendio de la sphera y de la arte de nauegar (1551) and its translation by Richard Eden, The Arte of Navigation (1561), which went through ten editions and became the model for English navigation manuals. Finally, by turning to the agents involved in the production and dissemination of these translations, particularly the printers and booksellers, and establishing the connections between them, this thesis reveals intricate social networks and sheds new light on certain aspects of the fields of navigation, translation and print.
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Williams, Graham Andrew. "Identification and resolution of capability gaps in forensic science." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2012. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/17500/.

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Although forensic biology is a powerful tool in criminal investigations, there are a number of capability gaps; namely, the interpretation of low-level DNA mixtures, associating the DNA profile with a body fluid, and the issue of consent in sexual offences. A research strategy was developed that utilises whole genome amplification (WGA), messenger RNA and microRNA analysis, DNA profiling, and clothing damage analysis. An evaluation of a WGA technique – multiple displacement amplification - with and without a macromolecular crowding agent, indicated that this may be of use for DNA samples containing certain mixing ratios; however, for this to be truly of use, knowledge of the nature of the sample preanalysis is required, which is not feasible in a forensic environment. A SYBR Greenbased mRNA gene expression test was developed that was capable of distinguishing between saliva and blood by using relative quantitation on real-time PCR. However, the low specificity of the SYBR Green meant that a higher number of controls were required for this to work at forensic standard. A single channel simultaneous analytical test for DNA and microRNA was also developed, which meant that it could be possible to definitively identify the body fluid origin of a DNA profile. This represented a significant step forward in improving forensic biology capability. Reconstruction studies were carried out in response to a sexual assault case where consent was an issue. This study demonstrated that it was possible to cause significant damage to a bra without causing damage to the hook and eye fastening; thus, negating a hypothesis offered by the defence. A long term research strategy has been developed and significant progress has been made in improving the capability of the operational forensic biologist.
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Maurer, Lauren N. (Lauren Nichole). "Flashback : the return of psychedelic medicine." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76174.

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Thesis (S.M. in Science Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Graduate Program in Science Writing, 2012.
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In the 1960's, psychedelic drugs were a part of not only popular culture, but also cuttingedge psychology research. Scientists were studying these drugs in the hope of understanding and treating various psychological and societal ills; but as psychedelics got caught up in the counter-culture, they fell out of favor with the public, and practically vanished from the research world as quickly as they'd appeared. Now, decades after they all but disappeared, psychedelics are making a comeback. Focusing primarily on research with psychedelics to treat post-traumatic stress disorder as well as anxiety and depression associated with terminal illness, this thesis examines the researchers who've brought psychedelic medicine back from the brink and the work they're doing to explore the potential within these complex and controversial drugs.
by Lauren N. Maurer.
S.M.in Science Writing
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Matthews, Sally Joanne. "The African Renaissance as a response to dominant Western political discourses on Africa : a critical assessment." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2002. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-05302007-162640.

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Yong, Florence Hiu-Ling. "Quantitative Methods for Stratified Medicine." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17463130.

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Stratified medicine has tremendous potential to deliver more effective therapeutic intervention to improve public health. For practical implementation, reliable prediction models and clinically meaningful categorization of some comprehensible summary measures of individual treatment effect are vital elements to aid the decision-making process and bring stratified medicine to fruitful realization. We tackle the quantitative issues involved from three fronts : 1) prediction model building and selection; 2) reproducibility assessment; and 3) stratification. First, we propose a systematic model development strategy that integrates cross-validation and predictive accuracy measures in the prediction model building and selection process. Valid inference is made possible via internal holdout sample or external data evaluation to enhance generalizability of the selected prediction model. Second, we employ parametric or semi-parametric modeling to derive individual treatment effect scoring systems. We introduce a stratification algorithm with constrained optimization by utilizing dynamic programming and supervised-learning techniques to group patients into different actionable categories. We integrate the stratification and newly proposed prediction performance metric into the model development process. The methodologies are first presented in single treatment case, and then extended to two treatment cases. Finally, adapting the concept of uplift modeling, we provide a framework to identify the subgroup(s) with the most beneficial prospect; wasteful, harmful, and futile subgroups to save resources and reduce unnecessary exposure to treatment adverse effects. The proposals are illustrated by AIDS clinical study data and cardiology studies for non-censored and censored outcomes. The contribution of this dissertation is to provide an operational framework to bridge predictive modeling and decision making for more practical applications in stratified medicine.
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Kegley, John K. "Understanding the Use of Online Health Information Technology byPeople with and without Visual Disabilities." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1470918391.

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Fernandez, Meghann. "La papauté et le pouvoir politique dans l'Italie de la Renaissance." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0704.

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Italie phare selon les mots de Jacques Le Goff, Italie proie durant les invasions étrangères ou simple « expression géographique » selon le prince de Metternich, l’Italie a depuis son premier souffle offert à l’histoire du monde de nombreux visages. A ce titre, elle fait figure de véritable étrangeté dans le paysage européen actuel. Une Italie politique et religieuse dans une Europe intensément laïque. Une toute jeune nation au milieu de patries millénaires. Un pays où, encore aujourd’hui, politique et religion marchent main dans la main. Où les consciences s’éveillent à la messe comme dans l’isoloir. Un pays où l’humain cherche désespérément à toucher du doigt le divin. Où le divin lui-même devient humain en la personne des successeurs de Saint-Pierre, pendants aussi appréciés que redoutés des dirigeants temporels italiques. Or, si l’Italie occupe une telle place pour notre humanité, c’est avant tout du fait de la dichotomie qui l’a toujours habitée. Âme guerrière et conquérante autant qu’émanation sanctifiée de la religion catholique, elle est la terre qu’humain et divin se sont disputés pendant des décennies. Et c’est à la Renaissance que ce combat atteint son apex. Car temporel et spirituel furent animés d’une même tension créatrice dans leur âpreté à « faire l’Italie » et leurs affrontements incessants allaient façonner l’essence même de l’Italie d’aujourd’hui, lui donnant ce caractère bicéphale qui est probablement l’un des aspects les plus constitutifs de l’identité italienne actuelle. Et lui confère une spécificité sans pareille en Europe
Italy lighthouse according to Jacques Goff’s words, Italy prey during the French and Spanish invasions ou simple « geographic expression » according to the prince of Metternich ; Italy has since her very first breath given the world history many visages. As such, Italy is a true strangeness in our modern European landscape, deeply proud of still exposing today the two side of her personnality. A politic and religious Italy in a very secular Europe. A very young nation among millenial homelands. A country transcended by its stormy story, by its intrinsic fragilities. A country where today, politic and religious are walking together. Where the minds awakes during the mass or in the voting booth. A country where human is begging for divine. Where divine himself becomes human in the sanctified person of St-Peters’s successors, equivalent as appreciated as feared of Italic secular leaders. And whose power exceeds the Vatican confines to radiate in the whole world, making Italy a real beacon illuminating the whole planet. Or, if Italy occupies such a place in our humanity, it is because of the dichotomy who always inhabited it. Warrior soul and hallowed emanation of catholicity, Italy is the place that human and divine have fought about during centuries. And this quarrel reaches its climax during the Renaissance era. Where temporal and spiritual power were also guided by a same creative strenght in their acerbity to do Italy et their ceaseless quarrels were going to shape the very soul of modern Italy, giving her this two-headed dimension which is likely the most constituent aspect of Italian identity. And gives this Nation an unparalleled specificity in Europe
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Wise, William D. "Science and Medicine in Liudmila Ulitskaia’s Kazus Kukotskogo." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1432244141.

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Polaha, Jodi. "Measuring Program Impact: An Implementation Science Tutorial for Clinicians and Researchers." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6552.

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Starobinski, Keren S. (Keren Sarah). "Predicting medicine inpatient discharges at Massachusetts General Hospital." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129850.

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Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February, 2020
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At Massachusetts General Hospital, inpatients often experience significant non-clinical delays in patient care, and frequently wait in the Emergency Department or in inpatient-floor hallways before receiving bed assignments. Such delays result in overcrowding in the Emergency Department, heightened dissatisfaction among patients, and an increase in overall patient length-of-stay. Delays in bed assignments primarily occur because of the discrepancy between the timing of admissions, which generally occur throughout the day, and the timing of discharges, which typically occur in the afternoon. Furthermore, although bed managers know about scheduled admissions in advance, there is no standardized protocol that allows bed managers at the Admitting Department to identify which patients are ready to leave the hospital. In this project, we develop a discharge prediction tool that identifies medicine and neurology inpatient discharges that will occur within the next 24 hours. The goal is to use this tool to enable a more proactive bed-management process at MGH, provide the hospital staff with a methodical way to identify discharges, and ameliorate overcrowding challenges in the Emergency Department. The model was trained using the data of 60,993 inpatients who were hospitalized sometime between May 2016 and September 2018. The prediction algorithm achieved a 0.830 mean AUC-ROC (SD 0.002), 47.6% precision (24 hours), 67.4% precision (48 hours), and 43.8% recall using a decision threshold of 0.31. For inpatients who were on cardiology floors within the Department of Medicine, the model achieved 58.3% precision (24 hours), 74.3% precision (48 hours), and 63.5% recall using 0.31 as the decision threshold. Since the model used data that is accessible in most hospital information systems, it can be applied to other hospitals as well.
by Keren S. Starobinski.
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M.Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Polaha, Jodi, and Ivy A. Click. "Implementation Science at the End-Point: A New Approach for Researchers in Primary Care." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6372.

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Book Summary:Practice-Based Research shows mental-health practitioners how to establish viable and productive research programs in routine clinical settings. Chapters written by experts in practice-based research use real-world examples to help clinicians work through some of the most common barriers to research output in these settings, including lack of access to institutional review boards, lack of organizational support, and limited access to financial resources. Specialized chapters also provide information on research methods and step-by-step suggestions tailored to a variety of practice settings. This is an essential volume for clinicians interested in establishing successful, long-lasting practice-based research programs.
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Denagamage, Thomas Nishantha. "Application of evidence-based medicine to veterinary science and food safety." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2008.

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Collins, Allyson T. (Allyson Therese). "Sense and sense-ability : the artful science of hands-on medicine." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45340.

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Listening to lung sounds, feeling the pulse, observing posture and gait-these are just a few of the examinations that doctors perform on their patients. A physical exam exists for every organ, from the brain to the bones of the feet, each carried out with the physician's senses. For thousands of years, humans had been solely responsible for this exam ritual, until the emergence of diagnostic equipment-CT scans, MRI scans, ultrasounds, echocardiograms, mammograms, and more. In some cases, these devices replaced the physical exam. But in areas of the world where technology is unavailable, and even in places where it exists, many physicians and healthcare professionals cannot or will not to cede their tasks to tools. Their goal: to maintain an environment in which technology and the learned senses can coexist; an environment in which the physical exam remains an integral part of medicine.
by Allyson T. Collins.
S.M.in Science Writing
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Sudano, Laura. "Roles and Responsibilities of Behavioral Science Faculty on Inpatient Medicine Settings." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/77869.

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Behavioral science faculty (BSF) who work in family medicine residency education find themselves in inpatient medicine teaching service settings. However, there is limited research on the roles and responsibilities that BSF fill while working in inpatient medicine teaching services within family medicine residencies. The purpose of the present modified sequential explanatory study was to clarify the roles of BSF and how the BSF responsibilities inform training of mental health clinicians. The convenience sample for quantitative analysis included 60 BSF who currently work on an inpatient medicine teaching service and completed a web-based survey on contextual demographics and roles on inpatient medicine teaching service. The convenience sample for qualitative analysis included 24 BSF who participated in a semi-structured interview about the roles and responsibilities on an inpatient medicine teaching service. Results suggest that behavioral science faculty members assume the roles of Educator, Administrator, Patient Care Supporter, Evaluator, Scholar/Researcher, Community Service Liaison, Mentor/Advisor, and Gatekeeper, and perform multiple responsibilities within each role. I will identify the responsibilities within each role that BSF fill in inpatient medicine teaching services using qualitative analysis and explore discrepancies between previous frameworks and this study's outcomes. Implications for this research will help to inform the hiring process for behavioral science faculty, resident education, and comprehensive behavioral science faculty and marriage and family therapy training.
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Polaha, Jodi. "Implementation Science as Applied to Teaching in a Medical School Curriculum." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6647.

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Taj, Umar. "Improving medication adherence : a behavioural science approach." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2018. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/101740/.

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It is commonly assumed that the people who are making poor decisions about their health are indeed making an active decision to do so. This means that people are consciously and intentionally making poor decisions about their health. We often compute intention from action and conclude that these people are either unwilling to change their behaviour or that they are unable to do so. The default solution to changing people‘s behaviour therefore has been that since people act in their rational self-interest if we only tell people about the adverse consequences of their misbehaviour they would change it. In reality however, just giving people information does not bring about the desired behaviour change. Through insights from behavioural science, we can develop a better understanding of how and why people behave the way they do which can lead to a better informed design of health behaviour change interventions. In this PhD thesis, I aim to examine one healthcare problem where I believe the application of insights from behavioural science can create a meaningful impact. This problem relates to the issue of medication adherence. In particular, I am interested in adherence to antibiotic medication. Adherence is the extent to which the patient‘s behaviour matches agreed recommendations from the prescriber. Several reviews have found that adherence among patients in developed countries is only 50% (Horne et al, 2005; Haynes et al, 2002; WHO, 2003). Yet this figure is high in comparison with developing countries. For example, in United States, 51% of the patients with hypertension adhere to their medication. While in developing countries such as Gambia, Seychelles and China, only 27%, 26% and 43% of patients with hypertension adhere to their antihypertensive medication regimen (Bovet P et al., 2002; Graves JW., 2000; van der Sande MA et al., 2000; Guo H et al., 2001). Although adherence depends on a lot of factors, there is consistent evidence that regardless of what is being treated; non-adherence is a significant problem (WHO, 2003). The most recent systematic review on medication adherence concludes that: ―increasing the effectiveness of adherence interventions may have a far greater impact on the health of the population than any improvement in specific medical treatments.‖ (Horne et al, 2005). In this PhD thesis, I therefore turn my attention to improving the effectiveness of adherence interventions.
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Verardi, Donato. "La science et les secrets de la nature à Naples à la Renaissance : la magie naturelle de Giovan Battista Della Porta." Thesis, Paris Est, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PESC0091/document.

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La thèse propose une reconstruction de la pensée philosophique et scientifique de Giovan Battista della Porta (1535-1615). En particulier, le travail est consacré à la reconstruction de la notion de « secrets naturels » au cœur de la pensée philosophique de Della Porta et de son projet de réforme de la magie naturelle. Comme je l’ai montré, la rationalisation du «secret de la nature» chez Della Porta est reliée d'un côté aux problèmes de démonologie, de l'autre côté à celles de l'astrologie.La recherche est divisée en quatre parties : la première est consacrée à l’historiographie et à la réception de Della Porta. Le sens de la magie naturelle est étudié du point de vue de la réception immédiate de la pensée de Della Porta, et notamment le problème posé par le statut qu’elle accorde à l’action des démons. Il s’agit aussi de montrer comment la question reste discutée dans l’historiographie récente. La seconde partie est consacrée a la relation de la pensée de Della Porta avec le milieu de l’aristotélisme napolitain. Il s’agit de comprendre la notion de « secrets de la nature » à la lumière des débats relatifs à la connaissance du singulier et de montrer que le problème du statut de la magie naturelle rencontre à Naples les discussions autour de l’épistémologie médicale et de la conception avicennienne de la « forme spécifique ». La troisième partie est consacrée à la question de la causalité et au débat relatif à l’astrologie, ainsi qu’ au sens à donner à la sympathie par laquelle est expliqué l’influx céleste. L’un des objectifs majeurs est de montrer comment Della Porta est amené à limiter le sens que Ficin a donné à la sympathie. Della Porta réinterprète ainsi la conception des « images astrologiques » d’Albert le Grand. La quatrième partie porte sur la tension entre amitié et sympathie dans le contexte de l’astrologie, pour reprendre la question de la ressemblance au cœur des traités de physionomie de Della Porta et de sa méthode de recherche relative aux « secrets de la nature ». Cette méthode s’appuie sur la notion d’une causalité qui touche non la substance, mais les accidents, c’est-à-dire des « particularités individuelles », telles que le mouvement, la couleur, la figure etc., sur lesquelles Della Porta fait reposer la connaissance du singulier
This thesis focuses on the scientific and philosophical though of Giovan Battista Della Porta (1535-1615). In particular, the purpose of my thesis is to analyse and “reconstruct” the notion of “secret of nature” in Della Porta’s philosophy and in his project for the reformation of natural magic.As I have shown here, Della Porta’s rationalization of the “secret of nature” is connected either with demonological issues and with astrological problems.The thesis is divided into four parts. In the first part, the historiography and reception of the philosophical thought of Della Porta are discussed. The accent is put on the meaning of natural magic with particular regard to the role he assigns to demons. Here I show that the issue is still debated in the recent historiography. The second part introduces the relationship between Della Porta’s thought and the neapolitan aristotelianism. I proposed, here, to understand the notion of “secret of nature” in light of the debates related to the knowledge of “singular”. I have shown that the matter of the statute of natural magic is related to the discussions on the medical epistemology and on the Avicennean conception of forma speciei. The third part deals with the matter of causality and the debate about astrology. Also, it analyses the meaning of the concept of “sympathy”, interpreted as celestial influence. I have shown that Della Porta reinterprets the concept of “sympathy” of Ficino as well as the notion of “astrological image” of Albert the Great. In the fourth part, I studied the relationship between the concepts of “friendship” and “sympathy” in the astrological debate. Then, I studied the principle of “similarity” in Della Porta’s phisiognomy books and in his research methodology about “secrets of nature”. I have shown that this research methodology is based on a concept of causality not concerning the substance, but the “accidents”, i.e. the “individual particularities”: the movement, the color, the figure, etc. According to Della Porta, the knowledge of the singular is based on these “individual particularities”
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Guo, Shijing. "Systematic analysis and modelling of diagnostic errors in medicine." Thesis, City University London, 2016. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/15125/.

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Diagnostic accuracy is an important index of the quality of health care service. Missed, wrong or delayed diagnosis has a direct effect on patient safety. Diagnostic errors have been discussed at length; however it still lacks a systemic research approach. This thesis takes the diagnostic process as a system and develops a systemic model of diagnostic errors by implementing system dynamics modelling combined with regression analysis. It aims to propose a better way of studying diagnostic errors as well as a deeper understanding of how factors affect the number of possible errors at each step of the diagnostic process and how factors contribute to patient outcomes in the end. It is executed following two parts: In the first part, a qualitative model is developed to demonstrate how errors can happen during the diagnostic process; in other words, the model illustrates the connections among key factors and dependent variables. It starts from discovering key factors of diagnostic errors, producing a hierarchical list of factors, and then illustrates interrelation loops that show how relevant factors are linked with errors. The qualitative model is based on the findings of a systematic literature review and further refined by experts’ reviews. In the second part, a quantitative model is developed to provide system behaviour simulations, which demonstrates the quantitative relations among factors and errors during the diagnostic process. Regression modelling analysis is used to estimate the quantitative relationships among multi factors and their dependent variables during the diagnostic phase of history taking and physical examinations. The regression models are further applied into quantitative system dynamics modelling ‘stock and flow diagrams’. The quantitative model traces error flows during the diagnostic process, and simulates how the change of one or more variables affects the diagnostic errors and patient outcomes over time. The change of the variables may reflect a change in demand from policy or a proposed external intervention. The results suggest the systemic model has the potential to help understand diagnostic errors, observe model behaviours, and provide risk-free simulation experiments for possible strategies.
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Ash, Sarah L. "Cybersecurity of wireless implantable medical devices." Thesis, Utica College, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10109631.

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Wireless implantable medical devices are used to improve and prolong the lives of persons with critical medical conditions. The World Society of Arrhythmias reported that 133,262 defibrillators had been implanted in the United States in 2009 (NBC News, 2012). With the convenience of wireless technology comes the possibility of wireless implantable medical devices being accessed by unauthorized persons with malicious intents. Each year, the Food and Drug Agency (FDA) collects information on medical device failures and has found a substantial increase in the numbers of failures each year (Sametinger, Rozenblit, Lysecky, & Ott, 2015). Mark Goodman, founder of the Future Crimes Institute, wrote an article regarding wireless implantable medical devices (2015). According to Goodman, approximately 300,000 Americans are implanted with wireless implantable medical devices including, but not limited to, cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators, cochlear implants, neurostimulators, and insulin pumps. In upwards of 2.5 million people depend on wireless implantable medical devices to control potential life-threatening diseases and complications. It was projected in a 2012 study completed by the Freedonia Group that the need for wireless implantable medical devices would increase 7.7 percent annually, creating a 52 billion dollar business by 2015 (Goodman, 2015). This capstone project will examine the current cybersecurity risks associated with wireless implantable medical devices. The research will identify potential security threats, current security measures, and consumers’ responsibilities and risks once they acquire the wireless implantable medical devices. Keywords: Cybersecurity, Professor Christopher M. Riddell, critical medical conditions, FDA, medical device failures, risk assessment, wireless networks.

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Walden, Rachel R. "Zap! Pow! Graphic Medicine in Your Library." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8827.

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