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Yearly Archives: 2022

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  • 13 Dec 2022
    Joseph Taylor

    Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages

    At Gateshead, along the A1 south of Newcastle, a 20-meter-high colossus stares out over the landscape. While some passersby have referred to it as the “Gateshead Flasher,” for its outstretched arms and wings, the 200-ton steel statue is actually the Angel of the North. Artist Antony Gormley’s creation is magnificent for many reasons, but I […]

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  • 13 Dec 2022
    Christopher C. H. Cook

    Spirituality and Psychiatry

    What is spirituality, and what does it have to do with psychiatry? These are good questions but not easily answered; they evoke a lot of debate.

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  • 13 Dec 2022
    Ligita Ryliškytė

    The Justice that Rolls Down like Waters

    Art by Ramūnas Čeponis (Ramunas Ceponis).

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  • 12 Dec 2022
    Tabitha Stanmore

    Re-assessing magic in premodern England

    …when we be in trouble, or sickness, or lose any thing, we run hither and thither to wyssardes, or sorcerers, whom we call wise men; when there is no man foolish and blind as they be: for the devil leadeth them according unto his will and pleasure, and yet we run after them, seeking aid […]

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  • 12 Dec 2022
    Meesha Iqbal, Sameen Siddiqi, Awad Mataria, Katherine D. Rouleau

    Why a Textbook on Health Systems?

    The importance of health systems has been reinforced by the commitment from Low- and Middle-Income Countries (L&MICs) to pursue the target of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), health security, and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of Health and Wellbeing [SDG3] and other health related SDGs.

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  • 12 Dec 2022
    Mary Crossley

    Long COVID as a Case Study for Race/Disability Intersectionality

    Chimére Smith is one of tens of millions of Americans with symptoms of long COVID. According to an August 2022 NBC News story, the 40-year-old Black woman from Baltimore was experiencing extreme fatigue, diarrhea, brain fog, and loss of vision in one eye, along with other symptoms. The symptoms were debilitating, preventing Smith from working […]

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  • 9 Dec 2022
    Robert Friedland

    The new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease is only modestly effective: What else can we do now?

    The media have been busy in discussion with the results of a large clinical trial that is a new monoclonal antibody therapy, designed to treat patients with the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. On November 29th, the data was released from the clinical trial, developed by Eisai and Biogen. The outcomes show that the antibody, […]

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  • 8 Dec 2022
    Stephen Winter

    Making monetary redress work

    There are hundreds of thousands of survivors of abuse in care around the world. Many survivors experienced grievous physical, emotional, or sexual abuse or severe neglect while in out-of-home care. Their experiences of systemically injurious orphanages, residential schools, and foster care are gaining popular attention through films such as Spotlight (2015), theater works such as […]

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