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"Just respect. I am a human being...treat me like that, talk to me like that": Islamophobia and the Healthcare System
No full textIslamophobia is a growing public health issue in White, Christian-majority countries, including the United States (Samari et al., 2018). I conducted a systematic review of published literature, which yielded little data regarding Islamophobia as a whole and even less so for Islamophobia in health. Although research is minimal, Islamophobia negatively disrupts health systems at the individual, interpersonal, and structural levels (Samari, 2016). This paper advances the understanding of Islam and common misconceptions of the religion and its practice. Further, Islamophobia is defined and explored through the experience of three Black Muslim women in health care environments. I used a semi-structured format to conduct a virtual interview with each woman. Interviews were later transcribed and one interview was translated from Arabic to English, remaining as close to the English meaning in Arabic as the English language allowed. The initial intention of this research was to examine the influence of wearing the hijab on Muslim women’s health care encounters. Importantly, however, aspects of care such as the idea of race and respect proved to be significant and were not always related to wearing the hijab. Additionally, findings highlight how demonization of Muslims contributes to adverse health outcomes, and how recognition of the way White supremacy operates within health care and daily life can mitigate these negative effects.Bachelor of Scienc
Barriers and Solutions to Advance Directive Creation for Adult Oncology Patients: A Literature Review
Get PDFThis paper is a literature review of 20 articles to determine barriers to advance directive creation and potential solutions to these barriers for adult oncology patients. Common themes from the literature review are patient-specific barriers, provider-specific barriers, and general communication barriers between patients and providers. Minorities and those with low socioeconomic status are less likely to have completed advance directives. Many patients do not have good understanding of advance directives; the end of life is a taboo topic, resulting in low rates of advance directive completion despite the known benefits of advance care planning. Provider-specific barriers include discomfort about bringing up a sensitive topic or feeling like there is not enough time for end-of-life discussions. Communication barriers occur when providers wait until a late-stage of the disease to initiate a conversation or when they want to stay positive for their patients. Advance care planning should be a routine part of care for oncology patients, and conversations should be initiated early on in the treatment process. Additionally, those at risk for not having an advance directive should be specifically targeted for advance care planning.Bachelor of Scienc
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Professional nursing : concepts and challenges, 7th ed/ Black
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Truth Telling and Severe Fetal Diagnosis: A Virtue Ethics Perspective
No full textIncreased use of prenatal technologies has increased the numbers of women and partners whose fetus is diagnosed with a severe impairment. Virtue ethics provides a useful perspective to consider truth telling in this context, specifically how couples and providers interpret the diagnosis and prognosis to create truth. Virtue ethics is person-centered rather than act-centered, with moral actions guided by how a virtuous person would act in the same circumstance. Phronesis (practical wisdom) guides these actions
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Professional nursing : concepts and challenges, 7th ed/ Black
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Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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