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Your Brain on the Truth
Get PDFThe War on Drugs would have you believe that drugs are evil, that those who use drugs are morally bankrupt and that drugs need to disappear. What if everything you know about drugs was wrong? We now find ourselves in the twenty-first century and science is revealing some interesting facts about drugs that contradict what we have been told for many decades now. Certain politicians have also come forward providing insight into the motivations behind the War on Drugs. The puzzle that is starting to be pieced together is causing serious cognitive dissonance. This essay takes a look at the results of the War on Drugs’ policies, the research and studies, both past and present, regarding some of the most demonized drugs, and what these mean for the future of both drug legislation and mental disorder treatment. The ethics, or lack thereof, of the War on Drugs must be looked at critically, and modern studies are revealing both a problematic past as well as a potentially bright future
Who Do You Say That I Am?: Race, Iconography, and Jesus in Twenty-First Century America
Get PDFThis paper examines race, iconography, and Jesus imagery in the twenty-first century United States. After examining why iconography and Christology have such a strong effect on viewers of religious imagery, I trace the history of racialized Jesus imagery over time. I then examine two recent popular sources that feature Black Jesuses to see how they might influence belief and practice. These popular sources are the Adult Swim tv show Black Jesus and NBC’s live performance of Jesus Christ Superstar with John Legend playing Jesus in April 2018. Finally, I briefly introduce some other alternative Jesus imagery and situate my essay in the larger discussion of how and why art and iconography influence belief and practice, and why it matters
Teaching Race, Racism, and Racial Justice: Pedagogical Principles and Classroom Strategies for Course Instructors
Get PDFTeaching on topics of race and racism presents unique challenges to leaders in the university classroom setting. Despite an increasing number of instructors bringing a critical analysis of racial in/justice to their curriculum, many report challenges in teaching this content effectively. In this article, we address these challenges. We define common challenges in teaching racial content and articulate four principles for course planning around topics of race, racism, and racial justice. Then, drawing on a systematic review of scholarship examining issues of difference within a diverse range of disciplinary settings, we introduce a set of five pedagogical strategies, and supporting classroom practices, that will help instructors effectively manage everyday classroom interactions. This article contributes to the vast literature on teaching race and anti-racist education by synthesizing guiding pedagogical principles for course planning and classroom management that are applicable in a wide array of disciplinary contexts and providing concrete strategies that committed instructors, at varying levels of experience, can implement in their courses
Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy, volume 25, issue 1
Get PDFContents include: Editors\u27 Note: Dramaturgical Snapshots of the Americas; Breaks in the Common Good: Dramaturging MayDay within the Heart of the Beast; I Fight With My Blood // Battle With My Tongue: A Dramaturgy of Survival in the Southwest; More Makes More: Indigenous Theatre in Canada; The Impact of Involvement: Peoplmovr\u27s Creative Director; Three Confessions of a Dramaturg: Staging Marguerite Duran\u27s India Song; Thebes in Utah: Translating in Ali Salim\u27s Egyptian The Comedy of Oedipushttps://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdareview/1053/thumbnail.jp
Efficacy of Evidence-Based Exercise as a Treatment for Breast Cancer Related Lymphedema
Get PDFBreast cancer related lymphedema (BCRL) of the upper extremity is a frequent sequela following axillary node dissection (AND). A recent meta-analysis by Gillespie et al. (2018), suggested a 21.4% incidence of chronic arm edema post breast cancer intervention. Gillespie et al. (2018) explained that because of a lack of diagnostic criteria for BCRL, incidence reports varied widely from less than 5% to over 50%.
The purpose of this review was to determine the efficacy of exercise in the self-management of BCRL, including the types and frequency of exercise. Protocols from 24 articles on the self-management of BCRL, including exercise as a home program, were reviewed to establish best practice guidelines. There is strong evidence that a graded program that includes a resistive exercise element is safe and will not exacerbate lymphedema symptoms when supervised and progressive. The evidence on specific parameters regarding exercise selection, sequencing, and progression is less clear. A multifaceted client treatment approach to BCRL shows significant positive effects on physical and mental health outcomes. Results of the literature review call for more rigorous studies which define best practices for exercise selection and sequencing in patients with BCRL post AND. Our research may influence lymphedema practitioner practice standards when integrating aerobic and resistive exercise tailored to their clients’ need for ethical and feasible treatment of BCRL post AND
Biopsychosocial factors that hinders and/or facilitate successful return to work: A review of literature and knowledge of translation
Get PDFTwo community practitioners collaborated with the University of Puget Sound Occupational Therapy program and submitted the following clinical question: “What bio/psycho/social factors have been identified to hinder and/or facilitate successful return to work in addition to traditional work hardening/conditioning intervention for adults?” A literature review discovered 47 articles ranging from systematic reviews, descriptive, qualitative, outcome, and experimental studies. Evidence was synthesized by two reviewers into a critically appraised topic (CAT). Numerous facilitating (job satisfaction, employment accommodation, social support, multidisciplinary approach) and hindering factors (social isolation, depression, pain, self-perceived disability) were identified affecting one’s ability to return to work after various diagnoses.
Due to the lack of literature on interventions addressing the biopsychosocial factors specifically for vocational rehabilitation, another literature review was conducted for the knowledge translation portion of the project. This review resulted in 22 additional articles addressing effective interventions to alleviate pain and/or depression, used by various healthcare professions. The researchers provided a document with detailed flow charts to the community practitioners summarizing the findings. Satisfaction surveys were administered to both collaborators to assess their professional opinion about the potential use of these interventions in their settings. Further research should explore the effectiveness and applicability of the interventions identified in this study in vocational rehabilitation
The Failure of Hope as an Epistemic Standard
Get PDFJonathan Weinberg (2007) attempted to show how to challenge intuitions empirically, without risking skepticism. In this paper, I raise several objections to his project. In the first section I will clarify and explain several terms. Specifically, what I mean when I use intuition in this paper and what Weinberg means by hopefulness. Clarification of these terms is essential to this paper, as both intuition and hopefulness have become somewhat muddled terms in recent literature. In the second section I will reconstruct Weinberg’s argument against philosophers’ appeals to intuition. Weinberg aims to show that philosophers’ appeals to intuitions are epistemically hopeless –i.e., not sensitive to its errors and hard to correct for its errors. In the third section, I will raise objections to hopefulness as an epistemic standard and to his evaluation of how perception does on the standard of hopefulness. In the fourth section I will explore how Weinberg could respond to these objections, and I will respond to the potential responses. Weinberg’s argument against intuitions as a source of evidence fails in showing that hopefulness is a necessary and correct epistemic standard for putative sources of evidence, because if correct, it results in full-blown skepticism
A Response to Julia French’s “Mt. Olympus, Gotham City and the Metropolis: The Power of Heroism, in Shaping Cultures and Futures”
Get PDF11:00-11:50: “Mt. Olympus, Gotham City, and Metropolis: The Power of Heroism in Shaping Cultures and Futures”
By Julia French (University of Notre Dame)
Comments by Sam Place
Chair: Madilyn Ive
Comments on Jongmin Jerome Baek Paper “How to Solve Moral Conundrums with Computability Theory”
Get PDF“How to Solve Moral Conundrums with Computability Theory”
By Jongmin Jerome Baek (University of California, Berkeley)
Comments by Liam Grantham
Chair: Erland Cai
Statistcal Mechanics and the Past Hypothesis
Get PDFStatistical mechanics is a time invariant explanation of thermodynamic phenomena at a microphysical level. However, given that the laws of thermodynamics are not time-reversal symmetric, it is unclear whether to introduce the asymmetry through boundary conditions (through the past hypothesis) or through the dynamic laws themselves. In this paper, I defend the need of a boundary condition for statistical mechanics against two main objections: that there is no independent knowledge of the past hypothesis, and that the dynamic laws in statistical mechanics should be time-reversal asymmetric. I first introduce core notions of statistical mechanics, explain the past hypothesis and its motivation. Then, I bring up the two main objections against the past hypothesis and my subsequent defense against them