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Non-Germinal Center Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma of the Liver in a Renal Transplant Patient: A Case Report
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Investigating the Impact of Collective Self-Esteem and Perceived Discrimination on the Symptom Profile of Depression in South Asians
Get PDFNaloxone Decriminalization and Opioid Overdose Trends: A Comparative Study of Lucas County, Ohio and the U.S.
Get PDFSelf, Eco-relationality and Peace Pedagogy: Lessons and Challenges from Wisdom Traditions ~ A Dialogue.
Get PDFAs peace and peace education struggle in a climate of existential threats we worry that current onto-epistemologies are insufficient to truly influence sustainable change. Instead, we fear existing pedagogies of peace only become co-opted into reproducing the dominant cultural system, which is based upon problematic notions of individuality, human-centrism, competition and violence. As peace educators and scholars we ask whether alternative onto-epistemological framings of peace could offer ways beyond our current predicaments and genuinely affect how we interact with each other and the other-than-human world. In particular, we wish to explore our own experiences working with what we will define as Wisdom-informed traditions; approaches that respectfully borrow from worldviews outside of the Western Modernist mindset. These perspectives encompass transpersonal notions of Self as interdependent and interrelational with the world around us. We believe such perspectives align with, and in some cases even predate, decolonial and philosophical critiques of peace education, offering specific methodologies that could transform our ways of being away from current Neoliberal framings towards more ecologically-centric and relational sensibilities. To discuss such perspectives, we wish to invite you the reader into dialogue with us to further destabilize the production of knowledge symptomatic with the current onto-epistemologies we seek divergence from. We therefore invite you into a diasporic co-poesis and diffractive dialogue about how Wisdom-informed traditions both challenge and inspire pedagogies of peace whilst reaffirming the central importance of an integrated Self and eco-relationality
Should clinicians be allowed to accept gifts/honoraria/consulting fees from anyone?
Get PDFShould clinicians be allowed to accept gifts/honoraria/consulting fees from anyone?
What would be lost if physicians could not work with such companies? What would be gained? Please write an essay focused on this dilemma. Be sure to consider the patient we saw in class with a DBS device who was doing very well, as well as the patient with opiate use disorder who had suffered considerably (keep in mind big pharma made the opiate epidemic worse with Oxytocin)
Understanding Nurture’s Influence on the Development of Mental Disorders
Get PDFThe grand question of Nature (genes and DNA) versus Nurture (environment, parenting) has been debated for a long time. In the passage above, it shows that psychiatrists used to think that schizophrenia was caused by “bad” mothering. If generalized, one might conclude that any or all mental disorders may be caused by “nurture.” In class, so far, you have seen three different patients with three different disorders (depression, schizophrenia, and addiction). Choose either “nature” or “nurture” as your stance and write an essay persuading the reader that one is more important than the other in terms of causing mental illness. Using examples from the passage above, class interviews, optional reading, and/or your own experiences would be much appreciated
Wars, Trees and the Struggle for Peace
Get PDFThe historical, spiritual, environmental and humanistic properties of trees are recognized worldwide. As a matter of fact, the recognition of their value as an asset to the entire humanity has increased with the passage of time. Their importance has been highlighted not only by the holy books and spiritual leaders of different religions but also by the story tellers, poets, novelists, painters, film makers, medicine manufacturers, and environmental activists. With the growing awareness of the causes and consequences of climate change, proliferating scientific studies have been projecting tree plantation and forestation as an existential need.
However, the ruination of trees due to wars and violence doesn’t seem to have received as much global attention as it should have. Perhaps it won’t be an exaggeration to say that a comprehensive peace perspective on the trees hasn’t been fully developed yet. The destruction of hundreds of thousands of trees in wars and violence are rarely noticed, and voices affirming that the trees also have a right to life and protection in wars and warlike situations as humans are supposed to have are still very mute. This paper discusses the sufferings of the trees as wars victims. It emphasizes the need for a worldwide campaign in favor of the basic rights of the trees and asks as to how can the campaign for the rights of the trees be converted into a powerful agency and how can the worldwide struggle for peace benefit from such an agency
