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The ethical potential of the corpse
Get PDFTuesday, October 8, 2024; noon to 1 p.m. (Central Time); Room NB2.100A or via Zoom. "The Ethical Potential of the Corpse". Cody J. Sanders, M.Div., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Congregational and Community Care Leadership, Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, Minnesota.While the bodies of the living are of central focus in most ethical considerations, our relationship to the bodies of our dead also holds insightful, if not revelatory, potential. Our relationship to the bodies of our dead has shifted greatly over time, and currently vary widely across religions and cultures. Many of these shifts and variations either bring us in closer proximity to the dead body (and death) or move us further away. Relationships with the corpse also become windows into understanding ethical relationships between the living and the ecological web of life. This lecture will consider these historical, cultural, and religious variations in relationships between the living and the bodies of our dead, will educate participants in emerging deathcare practices in the U.S. and their ethical significance, and will pose questions that widen ethical scopes to consider concerns of corpse care as relevant to ethical decision making.UT Southwestern--Program in Ethic
The Role of Acculturation in Parent-Child Relationships for Adolescent and Young Adult Patients' Adjustment to Cancer
No full textApproximately 70,000 adolescents/young adults (AYAs; ages 15-39) are diagnosed with cancer annually in the United States (NCI, 2015). This psychosocially at-risk group is less studied and understood than other age cohorts, and experience disparities in access to developmentally informed treatment. A sub-demographic amongst this group that is even more-so less studied are immigrant AYAs. As cancer impacts family dynamics and roles, immigrant AYAs face a unique challenge of navigating the cancer experience alongside the acculturative experience. To our knowledge, little to no research exists on the role of acculturation in AYAs and parent-child relationships when coping with cancer. Research exists on conflicts in parent-child relationships due to differences in acculturation known as the acculturative gap. Understanding the role of the acculturative gap as well as overall acculturative attitudes when coping with cancer may be a promising area of focus when conceptualizing care for cancer patients from various backgrounds.
Study aims were to: 1) describe ways acculturation relates to how AYA patients adjust to cancer and 2) describe how acculturation across parent-child relationships relate to AYAs adjusting to cancer. Participants included 15 AYA cancer patients who have been diagnosed with cancer at Children's Health (M = 18.1) and 13 caregivers. Demographic variables were collected from medical records and other measures. Qualitative analysis was guided by the principles of grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) and utilized the constant comparative approach.
Guided by study aims, qualitative analysis generated three primary sections: Section I: Participants and Aspects of Culture; Section II: Cancer and Acculturation; Section III: Parent-Child Relationships, Cultural Attitudes, and Experiencing Cancer. Results suggest that cancer has a gravitational effect, pulling many participants closer to their heritage culture through various ways culture is performed to cope with the cancer experience. Results also aided in participants ability to recognize ways their cultural identity and parent-child acculturation differences played a role in the cancer treatment through conflicts and related to autonomy, control, and increased sense of burden.
Acculturation theory is a framework to guide clinicians, families, peers, friends, and others through future intervention and support strategies to improve coping for immigrant AYA cancer patients. Study results also include recommendations, directly from AYA patient
An internist's guide to biomaterials
Get PDFDetailed formal protocol with illustrations and extensive bibliography.A recording of the protocol presentation is available on UT Southwestern's Mediasite. Note: Access to the video is restricted to authorized UT Southwestern users only.UT Southwestern--Internal Medicin
The Watchers in The Night
Get PDFThe author submitted this entry in the Open Verse Poetry category (Amateur division) for the 2024 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.Working as a overnight chaplain on the weekends has provided me a unique opportunity to bless patients, family, and staff who are in the hospital overnight. After working with these extraordinary people, I found an overwhelming desire to express my gratitude and admiration for all those medical professionals who work during the night shift
Modeling Tumor Neoantigens for Predicting Patients' Clinical Outcomes
Get PDFTumor neoantigens are critical targets of the host antitumor immune response and their presence play an important role in affecting tumor progressions and immunotherapy treatment response. Neoantigens showed a lot of potential of being applied to clinical treatment. However, systematic study of neoantigens' impact on tumors and patients is still challenging due to the huge diversity of neoantigens, heterogeneity within tumors, and the model to study the pairing between neoantigen-MHC and T cells to identify the neoantigens that truly elicit T cell response. To study the impact of neoantigen-T cell interaction on tumorigenesis, I developed a Bayesian hierarchical model to infer the history of neoantigen-cytotoxic T cell interactions in tumors
Preventing cardiovascular disease today: putting 20 years of progress into practice
No full textDetailed formal protocol with illustrations and extensive bibliography.A recording of the protocol presentation is available on UT Southwestern's Mediasite. Note: Access to the video is restricted to authorized UT Southwestern users only.UT Southwestern--Internal Medicin
A Content Analysis of Generative AI Policies within Health Science Journals
No full textThe author has shared the data for this presentation to an OSF page (https://osf.io/zyvbe/).This poster was recognized at the SCC/MLA Annual Business Meeting on October 29, 2024, as the recipient of the First Place Award for Posters in the 2024 Elizabeth K. Eaton, Ph.D. Research Awards.INTRODUCTION: While generative AI can help ease researchers' workloads by offering speedy data analysis, literature summaries, and writing assistance there are concerns about reliability, bias, and copyright. Journals are still navigating if AI-generated content should be allowed in scholarly literature and under what circumstances. OBJECTIVES: A year after ChatGPT's release, how many health science or medical journals have a policy regarding generative AI, and what, if any, are the emerging themes and commonalities of these policies? METHODS: A hundred journals were selected from Web of Science Journal Citation Report within their Clinical Medicine categories. Journals included those on the Science Citation Expanded and Emerging Sources Citation lists. Journals were divided into categories based on if a journal had a policy on AI-generated content, if it was allowed, and how much guidance was provided. A deductive thematic analysis was done on the existing generative AI policies. RESULTS: Over half the journals did not have a policy regarding generative AI. Common themes of the policies included AI cannot be an author, use must be disclosed, and the role of author responsibility. CONCLUSION: Journal policies were often vague and offered little if any guidance. Despite a few common themes, the publishing industry lacks a standardized approach to how generative AI can be used in research and scholarly content
When it rains, it pours: a guide to managing acute nonvariceal gastrointestinal bleeding
Get PDFDetailed formal protocol with illustrations and extensive bibliography.A recording of the protocol presentation is available on UT Southwestern's Mediasite. Note: Access to the video is restricted to authorized UT Southwestern users only.UT Southwestern--Internal Medicin
Identifying Depression Utilizing Tumor Necrosis Factor–[alpha] and Endothelial Function in Spinal Cord Injury
No full textPeople with spinal cord injury (SCI) are at high risk of developing pressure injuries (PrI) and depression. Depression has been shown to be associated with increased risk for PrI complications, and it is suggested that physiological changes related to depression may contribute to PrI development. However, there is a current gap in the literature linking depression to PrI development in SCI. Study 1 was designed to investigate the association between depression symptomology, hopelessness and affect in people with SCI. Mild and moderate depression was identified with Quick Inventory of Depression Symptomology-Self Report (QIDS-SR) in some SCI participants that did not have a current depression diagnosis. SCI individuals with a complete injury, higher neurological level of injury, and a shorter duration of injury have higher depression, hopelessness and negative affect total scores compared to matched controls. Evaluating hopelessness and negative affect in addition to depression might provide a more comprehensive understanding of psychological adaptation after SCI. Study 2 aimed at investigating the association between depression symptomology, biomarker derangement of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), and endothelial function in people with SCI. SCI participants showed higher levels of depression, TNF-α and shorter time to reach maximum level of nitric oxide (NO)-dependent vasodilation. Although these alterations co-exist, no direct linkage among these changes was observed. Findings of these studies support further investigation of depression in the SCI population utilizing QIDS-SR supplemented with hopelessness and negative affect assessment. In addition, future studies are warranted to further investigate the pathways of how depression contributes to increased PrI risk in the SCI population
As Within, So Without
Get PDFThe author submitted this entry in the Creative Non-Fiction category (Amateur division) for the 2024 On My Own Time (OMOT) Art Show.This work received a Second Place Award in the "Creative Non-Fiction" category in the 2024 On My Own Time show.Observing a matryoshka doll at my grandmother's house, I was inspired to learn more. Read on to take a deeper dive into the history and culture behind Russian nesting dolls