This document discusses chronic Lyme disease and its controversies. It provides background on Lyme disease, caused by Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria transmitted through tick bites. It reviews accepted short-term antibiotic treatment protocols but notes controversy over post-treatment lingering symptoms ("chronic Lyme") and alternative therapies. The document traces the history of Lyme disease and emergence of cases in the 1970s Northeast U.S. It aims to critically analyze the science and politics surrounding chronic Lyme disease definitions and treatments.
The is the PPT for the talk that I gave on "Gamifiying your Blog" on how gamification can help increase user engagement and improve user experience on the blog at WordCamp Pune
This document discusses 5 ways to repurpose existing content to reach new audiences and maximize SEO efforts, including by creating SlideShares, infographics, webinars, videos, and LinkedIn Pulse posts that reuse existing content on different themes and variations of a topic to attract more search traffic.
This document provides information about mapping and its uses in wildlife research. It introduces key concepts such as habitat, geographic data collection, and how maps are used to study species locations and distributions. The document outlines a guided discussion and lab activity to teach students about mapping. The lab uses real data on North Atlantic right whale deaths and acoustic buoy locations to have students create maps and analyze patterns related to threats like ship strikes.
The document discusses the importance of establishing a Project Management Office (PMO) within an organization. A PMO can help minimize project risks and uncertainties by standardizing processes, clarifying roles, developing methodologies and best practices, and monitoring projects. It describes four key information systems that a PMO can use to capture project data on earned value, risks, failures, and lessons learned. Establishing a strong PMO can help executives make better strategic decisions by providing more meaningful project information and reports.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
The is the PPT for the talk that I gave on "Gamifiying your Blog" on how gamification can help increase user engagement and improve user experience on the blog at WordCamp Pune
This document discusses 5 ways to repurpose existing content to reach new audiences and maximize SEO efforts, including by creating SlideShares, infographics, webinars, videos, and LinkedIn Pulse posts that reuse existing content on different themes and variations of a topic to attract more search traffic.
This document provides information about mapping and its uses in wildlife research. It introduces key concepts such as habitat, geographic data collection, and how maps are used to study species locations and distributions. The document outlines a guided discussion and lab activity to teach students about mapping. The lab uses real data on North Atlantic right whale deaths and acoustic buoy locations to have students create maps and analyze patterns related to threats like ship strikes.
The document discusses the importance of establishing a Project Management Office (PMO) within an organization. A PMO can help minimize project risks and uncertainties by standardizing processes, clarifying roles, developing methodologies and best practices, and monitoring projects. It describes four key information systems that a PMO can use to capture project data on earned value, risks, failures, and lessons learned. Establishing a strong PMO can help executives make better strategic decisions by providing more meaningful project information and reports.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms.
Edital simplificado de seleção nº 001 2017dnnoticias
Este edital abre inscrições para contratação temporária de professores, auxiliares de turma, inspetores de pátio e motoristas de transporte escolar na Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Juruena, MT. O processo seletivo consistirá em contagem de pontos e prova prática, e a classificação seguirá a pontuação obtida. Os candidatos classificados serão convocados para atribuição de aulas e jornada de trabalho.
Este documento presenta información sobre dos carreras profesionales relacionadas con las tecnologías de la información: Arquitectura de Sistemas de Información y Gestión de Sistemas de Información. Proporciona detalles sobre los códigos de carrera, niveles formativos, horas requeridas, créditos y vigencia de cada una. También incluye las unidades de competencia y sus indicadores de logro respectivos.
ZipDial’s Mobile Survey platform allows businesses, governments in India and the Caribbean to reach more mobile users than SMS-based platforms, getting actionable insights in hours, not weeks.
Information Mapping Presentation for STC West Coast Chapter - Jan 29, 2014_finalChris MacMillan
Chris will provide an overview and answer questions about the Information Mapping® structured writing methodology. Information Mapping is a 45 year old content standard developed at Harvard and Columbia Universities and is used by companies and government around the globe to improve performance and productivity. Chris will demonstrate how the method works, talk about why companies use it, demo FS Pro — Information Mapping’s plug-in for Microsoft Word — and talk about where the method is going next in the technical communications world. Along with the overview, Chris will provide a few “Mapping” concepts and principles that you can use in your work right away.
Deadlocks occur when a set of blocked processes each hold a resource and wait to acquire a resource held by another process, satisfying conditions of mutual exclusion, hold and wait, no preemption, and circular wait. Deadlocks can be avoided by preventing one of these conditions, such as numbering resources so processes request them in order. To resolve deadlocks, systems can use preemption by taking a resource from one process to give to another, rollback to a prior state and reallocate resources, or kill one or more processes. Livelock is similar to deadlock as processes continuously change state without progress, but differs in that processes are not blocked waiting for resources.
El documento discute tres puntos sobre el cambio climático: 1) los acuerdos internacionales que se han implementado para reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero, 2) la definición de escenarios climáticos como hipótesis sobre cómo evolucionará la sociedad y su impacto en el clima, y 3) cómo se espera que el cambio climático afecte la disponibilidad de agua en una cuenca debido a cambios en los volúmenes y temporada de los caudales como resultado de la influencia glacial.
This thesis introduces the concept of absolute irreversibility to provide a unified framework for deriving nonequilibrium equalities that are applicable to irreversible processes where conventional equalities break down. Absolute irreversibility corresponds to situations where time-reversed paths have no corresponding original paths, causing entropy production to diverge. Mathematically, it is characterized as the singular part of a probability measure under time reversal. The thesis derives new nonequilibrium equalities based on separating the absolutely irreversible part from the ordinary irreversible part using measure theory. These equalities give stronger restrictions than conventional ones. A new resolution of Gibbs' paradox is also presented from the viewpoint of absolute irreversibility.
Exotel - Cloud telephony, Business phone system expertsExotel
Exotel is India's leading cloud telephony company that works with both Enterprises & SMEs in India. We help companies manage their customer phone calls using features like IVR, call recording etc. Customers can even devise complex call-center like call flows with simple drag and drop actions. If you're thinking of using cloud telephony for your business, this is a good place for you to start because this presentation has a few unique case studies as well as few common scenarios that companies use Exotel for.
This presentation offers a brief glimpse into the kind of solutions that Exotel offers for clients. This includes large enterprises who need more of a call-center approach to managing their phone calls and SMEs who need a business phone system to gain more insights and have control over their phone calls.
TMC 2017 Spring Far Horizon Future Truck FinalPaul Menig
Short presentation, with backup ideas, to the Technology and Maintenance Council Spring 2017 meeting. This is the Far Horizon report for the Future Truck Committee.
This resume is for Kacha Ronak Kiranbhai, who has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from GTU Ahmedabad with a 7.48 CGPA. He currently works as a Production Executive at Deepak Nitrite Limited. His areas of interest include heat transfer, mass transfer operations, and fluid flow operations. He has work experience at Indian Oil Corporation Limited and has participated in various technical events and conferences.
Lyme Disease: The Mystery, Science, Controversy, and EvidenceJustice Erikson
This document is a literature review submitted by Justice Erikson for the completion of a Bachelor of Arts degree at Hampshire College. It explores many topics related to Lyme disease, including how it causes illness, available medical treatments, and alternatives when treatments fail. It also examines whether Lyme disease can be a chronic autoimmune disorder. The review analyzes socio-political, epidemiological, physiological, and molecular biological aspects of Lyme disease. Justice Erikson conducted the review to better understand the controversies surrounding Lyme disease and determine what more needs to be done to research and treat the disease.
ContentsIntroductionChapter 1From Plato to P.docxdickonsondorris
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1
From Plato to Polio
Chronic Disease in Historical Context
Chapter 2
An Awakening
Medicine and Illness in Post–World War Two America
Chapter 3
Disability Rights, Civil Rights, and Chronic Illness
Chapter 4
The Women’s Health Movement and Patient Empowerment
Chapter 5
Culture, Consumerism, and Character
Chronic Illness and Patient Advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s
Chapter 6
A Slight Hysterical Tendency
Revisiting “The Girl Who Cried Pain”
Chapter 7
Into the Fray
Patients in the Digital Age
Chapter 8
Participatory Medicine and Transparency
Chapter 9
What Future, at What Cost?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
By the Same Author
A Note on the Author
For Victoria,
my joy
Introduction
When I was growing up in the 1980s and ’90s, Boston’s famed Longwood
Medical Area was as much my place of education as the small parochial
grammar school I attended. Some of my most vivid memories were of my
mother driving me down Route 9 to my doctor appointments, past the strip
malls and chain restaurants of the western suburbs, past the reservoir in
Brookline, where the crimson autumn leaves formed a circle around the
gray expanse of water. These morning drives are almost always sunny and
autumnal in my memory; we would squint up as we were stopped at traffic
lights, always worried about being a little late, always underestimating the
drive or underestimating our likelihood of getting every red light through
three or four towns.
If it was a good appointment, I’d leave with an antibiotic script for my
ever-present ear and sinus infections, a follow-up appointment, or a referral
for yet another specialist for my wheezy lungs. If it was a bad appointment,
it would usually involve a CT scan, a blood test, or the scheduling of
another surgery. Either way, we’d get in the car and head back down Route
9, usually too late for me to make it back to school—I knew this would
happen but wore my uniform anyway—but just early enough to beat rush-
hour traffic. We would talk about my upcoming surgery, or about the books
I would get as presents for my recovery, or the classes I’d missed and the
sleepover I hoped I’d make it to on the weekend.
But chronic illness? I don’t remember hearing that term, and I certainly
don’t remember using it in reference to my own patient experiences. I lived
in reaction to each illness event, never quite acknowledging the larger
pattern.
It wasn’t just another infection, another setback, another disruption. It
wasn’t going to go away.
Certainly, I don’t blame the grade school version of myself for
overlooking this distinction, or the high school and college version, either.
Even if I knew it intellectually by then, emotionally it was another
adjustment altogether. And I know I wasn’t alone. In fact, I think this is the
most daunting aspect of any chronic illness, whether you are the patient
grappling with a diagnosis or a healthy person who hopes it never happens
to you: It isn’t going .
ContentsIntroductionChapter 1From Plato to P.docxbobbywlane695641
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1
From Plato to Polio
Chronic Disease in Historical Context
Chapter 2
An Awakening
Medicine and Illness in Post–World War Two America
Chapter 3
Disability Rights, Civil Rights, and Chronic Illness
Chapter 4
The Women’s Health Movement and Patient Empowerment
Chapter 5
Culture, Consumerism, and Character
Chronic Illness and Patient Advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s
Chapter 6
A Slight Hysterical Tendency
Revisiting “The Girl Who Cried Pain”
Chapter 7
Into the Fray
Patients in the Digital Age
Chapter 8
Participatory Medicine and Transparency
Chapter 9
What Future, at What Cost?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
By the Same Author
A Note on the Author
For Victoria,
my joy
Introduction
When I was growing up in the 1980s and ’90s, Boston’s famed Longwood
Medical Area was as much my place of education as the small parochial
grammar school I attended. Some of my most vivid memories were of my
mother driving me down Route 9 to my doctor appointments, past the strip
malls and chain restaurants of the western suburbs, past the reservoir in
Brookline, where the crimson autumn leaves formed a circle around the
gray expanse of water. These morning drives are almost always sunny and
autumnal in my memory; we would squint up as we were stopped at traffic
lights, always worried about being a little late, always underestimating the
drive or underestimating our likelihood of getting every red light through
three or four towns.
If it was a good appointment, I’d leave with an antibiotic script for my
ever-present ear and sinus infections, a follow-up appointment, or a referral
for yet another specialist for my wheezy lungs. If it was a bad appointment,
it would usually involve a CT scan, a blood test, or the scheduling of
another surgery. Either way, we’d get in the car and head back down Route
9, usually too late for me to make it back to school—I knew this would
happen but wore my uniform anyway—but just early enough to beat rush-
hour traffic. We would talk about my upcoming surgery, or about the books
I would get as presents for my recovery, or the classes I’d missed and the
sleepover I hoped I’d make it to on the weekend.
But chronic illness? I don’t remember hearing that term, and I certainly
don’t remember using it in reference to my own patient experiences. I lived
in reaction to each illness event, never quite acknowledging the larger
pattern.
It wasn’t just another infection, another setback, another disruption. It
wasn’t going to go away.
Certainly, I don’t blame the grade school version of myself for
overlooking this distinction, or the high school and college version, either.
Even if I knew it intellectually by then, emotionally it was another
adjustment altogether. And I know I wasn’t alone. In fact, I think this is the
most daunting aspect of any chronic illness, whether you are the patient
grappling with a diagnosis or a healthy person who hopes it never happens
to you: It isn’t going .
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After nearly dying of the disease himself Steven Phillips MD experienced firsthand the confusion in the medical community about Lyme disease that too often leads to misdiagnosed and undiagnosed cases. He has made it his mission to separate facts from misconceptions working with top universities to find cures and novel therapies for this often debilitating disease that affects so many.  In this eyeopening and controversial book Dr. Phillips and his former patient Dana Parish who has become a
This document provides guidelines for diagnosing and treating Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. It discusses Lyme borreliosis, including diagnostic hints, symptoms, and treatment guidelines. Treatment involves oral or intravenous antibiotics. It also covers co-infections, supportive therapies, rehabilitation, prevention, and resources for further information. The author takes a broad view of Lyme disease as the illness resulting from a tick bite, beyond just infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, given associated co-infections, immune dysfunction, and other factors in chronic cases.
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hilip Berman, a 25-year-old single unemployed former copy editor for a large publishing
house, . . . had been hospitalized after a suicide attempt in which he deeply gashed his
wrist with a razor blade. He described [to the therapist] how he had sat on the bathroom
floor and watched the blood drip into the bathtub for some time before he telephoned
his father at work for help. He and his father went to the hospital emergency room to have
the gash stitched, but he convinced himself and the hospital physician that he did not need
hospitalization. The next day when his father suggested he needed help, he knocked his dinner
to the floor and angrily stormed to his room. When he was calm again, he allowed his father
to take him back to the hospital.
The immediate precipitant for his suicide attempt was that he had run into one of his former
girlfriends with her new boyfriend. The patient stated that they had a drink together, but all the
while he was with them he could not help thinking that “they were dying to run off and jump
in bed.” He experienced jealous rage, got up from the table, and walked out of the restaurant.
He began to think about how he could “pay her back.”
Mr. Berman had felt frequently depressed for brief periods during the previous several years. He
was especially critical of himself for his limited social life and his inability to have managed to
have sexual intercourse with a woman even once in his life. As he related this to the therapist,
he lifted his eyes from the floor and with a sarcastic smirk said, “I’m a 25-year-old virgin. Go
ahead, you can laugh now.” He has had several girlfriends to date, whom he described as very
attractive, but who he said had lost interest in him. On further questioning, however, it became
apparent that Mr. Berman soon became very critical of them and demanded that they always
meet his every need, often to their own detriment. The women then found the relationship very
unrewarding and would soon find someone else.
During the past two years Mr. Berman had seen three psychiatrists briefly, one of whom had
given him a drug, the name of which he could not remember, but that had precipitated some
sort of unusual reaction for which he had to stay in a hospital overnight. . . . Concerning his
hospitalization, the patient said that “It was a dump,” that the staff refused to listen to what
he had to say or to respond to his needs, and that they, in fact, treated all the patients “sadisti-
cally.” The referring doctor corroborated that Mr. Berman was a difficult patient who demanded
that he be treated as special, and yet was hostile to most staff members throughout his stay.
After one angry exchange with an aide, he left the hospital without leave, and subsequently
signed out against medical advice.
Mr. Berman is one of two children of a middle-class family..
The document discusses the importance of medical professionals understanding patients' cultural backgrounds when assessing their needs. It provides examples of how cultural understanding can reduce prejudice, build mutual respect, and help professionals better understand how different groups experience illnesses. The presentation aims to share the presenter's experience researching the lives of lupus patients, including the challenges faced and methods used like interviews, observation, and qualitative data analysis. It also discusses themes that emerged around daily experiences, strategies for coping, and the social context of dying. The presentation concludes by linking findings to improving care practices.
Christopher is a non-traditional graduate student pursuing a Masters in Chemistry at the University of Michigan. He serves in several leadership roles in the graduate student government, including as the Rackham Student Government Representative and Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee. The document discusses Christopher's experiences in polyamorous relationships and alternative lifestyles. It explores the challenges of acceptance for non-traditional relationships and identities. Christopher shares personal stories and insights into practicing polyamory successfully through open communication, negotiating agreements, and navigating jealousy.
A Call for More Talk and Less Abuse in the Consulting RoomO.docxblondellchancy
This document summarizes a psychoanalyst's perspective on reducing sexual boundary violations in the consulting room. The psychoanalyst argues that psychoanalysis would benefit from shifting its focus from extreme cases of violations to exploring the universal experience of erotic and negative transference. Sex therapy training, which includes role-playing exercises on communication about sexuality, promotes openness and prevents violations better than psychoanalysis' current approach. However, laws, ethics codes, and views within psychoanalysis are inconsistent on defining and addressing violations, especially post-termination. The psychoanalyst calls for psychoanalysis to learn from the unambiguous stance of sex therapy in prohibiting all therapist-patient sexual relationships.
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A Call for More Talk and Less Abuse in the Consulting Room:
One Psychoanalyst–Sex Therapist’s Perspective
Elizabeth R. Goren, PhD
New York University
Guilt, titillation, and anxious confusion about sexuality and sexual relations between therapist and patient
pervade the psychoanalytic community. Review of state laws and regulations as well as professional
ethics codes reveals a lack of certainty about what constitutes professional misconduct, especially
posttermination. Comparing the training approaches of sex therapy and psychoanalysis, the author
suggests that psychoanalysis will benefit from shifting its focus on extreme cases of egregious sexual
boundary violations onto greater in-depth exploration of clinically universal experience of powerful
erotic and negative transference and countertransference. Innovative and experiential educational formats
that promote openness, acceptance, confidence, and skill with these dynamics are the best prevention.
Keywords: psychoanalysis, sex therapy, boundary violations, ethics training
I was a sex therapist for many years before becoming an analyst.
My training in sex therapy took place in the 1970s, the era of
sexual liberation and the initial rise of the behavior therapy move-
ment, before the terms sexual boundary violations (SBV) and risk
management had entered professional discourse. One of my first
sex therapy courses involved a series of role-playing exercises,
including one of taking turns giving and receiving massage, a
standard sex therapy homework assignment. This is a teaching tool
that could never be a part of a professional curriculum in today’s
climate of increased sensitivity to sexual abuse and risk manage-
ment approach to training and education. We were clothed, and
touch was restricted to the kind of back, neck, arms, and hands
massage now offered in airports and nail salons. Role-playing
patient and therapist, we talked about our bodies and sexuality in
a very personal and detailed way with one another.
I offer this vignette in the spirit of bringing the perspective of
other treatment models, specifically sex therapy, to our psychoan-
alytic approach to the problem of SBV. As I look back, I recall my
sex therapy mentors repeatedly and sharply reminding us how
crucial it was to maintain the therapeutic frame and professional
boundaries. The reputation and very legitimacy of this new form of
psychotherapy were at stake. To this day, sex therapists are mind-
ful of not being confused with sex surrogates!
Despite the marked differences in thinking and approach, psy-
choanalysis and sex therapy are the treatment modalities most
dedicated to intense clinical work with sex and sexuality. How-
ever, in contrast to psychoanalysis, sex therapy has historically
taken a strong unambiguous stand against therapists ever becom-
ing sexually or romantically involved with patients. Equally im-
portant, sex therapy is more dedicated than psychoanalysis to
training that focuses on developing “.
Edital simplificado de seleção nº 001 2017dnnoticias
Este edital abre inscrições para contratação temporária de professores, auxiliares de turma, inspetores de pátio e motoristas de transporte escolar na Secretaria Municipal de Educação de Juruena, MT. O processo seletivo consistirá em contagem de pontos e prova prática, e a classificação seguirá a pontuação obtida. Os candidatos classificados serão convocados para atribuição de aulas e jornada de trabalho.
Este documento presenta información sobre dos carreras profesionales relacionadas con las tecnologías de la información: Arquitectura de Sistemas de Información y Gestión de Sistemas de Información. Proporciona detalles sobre los códigos de carrera, niveles formativos, horas requeridas, créditos y vigencia de cada una. También incluye las unidades de competencia y sus indicadores de logro respectivos.
ZipDial’s Mobile Survey platform allows businesses, governments in India and the Caribbean to reach more mobile users than SMS-based platforms, getting actionable insights in hours, not weeks.
Information Mapping Presentation for STC West Coast Chapter - Jan 29, 2014_finalChris MacMillan
Chris will provide an overview and answer questions about the Information Mapping® structured writing methodology. Information Mapping is a 45 year old content standard developed at Harvard and Columbia Universities and is used by companies and government around the globe to improve performance and productivity. Chris will demonstrate how the method works, talk about why companies use it, demo FS Pro — Information Mapping’s plug-in for Microsoft Word — and talk about where the method is going next in the technical communications world. Along with the overview, Chris will provide a few “Mapping” concepts and principles that you can use in your work right away.
Deadlocks occur when a set of blocked processes each hold a resource and wait to acquire a resource held by another process, satisfying conditions of mutual exclusion, hold and wait, no preemption, and circular wait. Deadlocks can be avoided by preventing one of these conditions, such as numbering resources so processes request them in order. To resolve deadlocks, systems can use preemption by taking a resource from one process to give to another, rollback to a prior state and reallocate resources, or kill one or more processes. Livelock is similar to deadlock as processes continuously change state without progress, but differs in that processes are not blocked waiting for resources.
El documento discute tres puntos sobre el cambio climático: 1) los acuerdos internacionales que se han implementado para reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero, 2) la definición de escenarios climáticos como hipótesis sobre cómo evolucionará la sociedad y su impacto en el clima, y 3) cómo se espera que el cambio climático afecte la disponibilidad de agua en una cuenca debido a cambios en los volúmenes y temporada de los caudales como resultado de la influencia glacial.
This thesis introduces the concept of absolute irreversibility to provide a unified framework for deriving nonequilibrium equalities that are applicable to irreversible processes where conventional equalities break down. Absolute irreversibility corresponds to situations where time-reversed paths have no corresponding original paths, causing entropy production to diverge. Mathematically, it is characterized as the singular part of a probability measure under time reversal. The thesis derives new nonequilibrium equalities based on separating the absolutely irreversible part from the ordinary irreversible part using measure theory. These equalities give stronger restrictions than conventional ones. A new resolution of Gibbs' paradox is also presented from the viewpoint of absolute irreversibility.
Exotel - Cloud telephony, Business phone system expertsExotel
Exotel is India's leading cloud telephony company that works with both Enterprises & SMEs in India. We help companies manage their customer phone calls using features like IVR, call recording etc. Customers can even devise complex call-center like call flows with simple drag and drop actions. If you're thinking of using cloud telephony for your business, this is a good place for you to start because this presentation has a few unique case studies as well as few common scenarios that companies use Exotel for.
This presentation offers a brief glimpse into the kind of solutions that Exotel offers for clients. This includes large enterprises who need more of a call-center approach to managing their phone calls and SMEs who need a business phone system to gain more insights and have control over their phone calls.
TMC 2017 Spring Far Horizon Future Truck FinalPaul Menig
Short presentation, with backup ideas, to the Technology and Maintenance Council Spring 2017 meeting. This is the Far Horizon report for the Future Truck Committee.
This resume is for Kacha Ronak Kiranbhai, who has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from GTU Ahmedabad with a 7.48 CGPA. He currently works as a Production Executive at Deepak Nitrite Limited. His areas of interest include heat transfer, mass transfer operations, and fluid flow operations. He has work experience at Indian Oil Corporation Limited and has participated in various technical events and conferences.
Lyme Disease: The Mystery, Science, Controversy, and EvidenceJustice Erikson
This document is a literature review submitted by Justice Erikson for the completion of a Bachelor of Arts degree at Hampshire College. It explores many topics related to Lyme disease, including how it causes illness, available medical treatments, and alternatives when treatments fail. It also examines whether Lyme disease can be a chronic autoimmune disorder. The review analyzes socio-political, epidemiological, physiological, and molecular biological aspects of Lyme disease. Justice Erikson conducted the review to better understand the controversies surrounding Lyme disease and determine what more needs to be done to research and treat the disease.
ContentsIntroductionChapter 1From Plato to P.docxdickonsondorris
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1
From Plato to Polio
Chronic Disease in Historical Context
Chapter 2
An Awakening
Medicine and Illness in Post–World War Two America
Chapter 3
Disability Rights, Civil Rights, and Chronic Illness
Chapter 4
The Women’s Health Movement and Patient Empowerment
Chapter 5
Culture, Consumerism, and Character
Chronic Illness and Patient Advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s
Chapter 6
A Slight Hysterical Tendency
Revisiting “The Girl Who Cried Pain”
Chapter 7
Into the Fray
Patients in the Digital Age
Chapter 8
Participatory Medicine and Transparency
Chapter 9
What Future, at What Cost?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
By the Same Author
A Note on the Author
For Victoria,
my joy
Introduction
When I was growing up in the 1980s and ’90s, Boston’s famed Longwood
Medical Area was as much my place of education as the small parochial
grammar school I attended. Some of my most vivid memories were of my
mother driving me down Route 9 to my doctor appointments, past the strip
malls and chain restaurants of the western suburbs, past the reservoir in
Brookline, where the crimson autumn leaves formed a circle around the
gray expanse of water. These morning drives are almost always sunny and
autumnal in my memory; we would squint up as we were stopped at traffic
lights, always worried about being a little late, always underestimating the
drive or underestimating our likelihood of getting every red light through
three or four towns.
If it was a good appointment, I’d leave with an antibiotic script for my
ever-present ear and sinus infections, a follow-up appointment, or a referral
for yet another specialist for my wheezy lungs. If it was a bad appointment,
it would usually involve a CT scan, a blood test, or the scheduling of
another surgery. Either way, we’d get in the car and head back down Route
9, usually too late for me to make it back to school—I knew this would
happen but wore my uniform anyway—but just early enough to beat rush-
hour traffic. We would talk about my upcoming surgery, or about the books
I would get as presents for my recovery, or the classes I’d missed and the
sleepover I hoped I’d make it to on the weekend.
But chronic illness? I don’t remember hearing that term, and I certainly
don’t remember using it in reference to my own patient experiences. I lived
in reaction to each illness event, never quite acknowledging the larger
pattern.
It wasn’t just another infection, another setback, another disruption. It
wasn’t going to go away.
Certainly, I don’t blame the grade school version of myself for
overlooking this distinction, or the high school and college version, either.
Even if I knew it intellectually by then, emotionally it was another
adjustment altogether. And I know I wasn’t alone. In fact, I think this is the
most daunting aspect of any chronic illness, whether you are the patient
grappling with a diagnosis or a healthy person who hopes it never happens
to you: It isn’t going .
ContentsIntroductionChapter 1From Plato to P.docxbobbywlane695641
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1
From Plato to Polio
Chronic Disease in Historical Context
Chapter 2
An Awakening
Medicine and Illness in Post–World War Two America
Chapter 3
Disability Rights, Civil Rights, and Chronic Illness
Chapter 4
The Women’s Health Movement and Patient Empowerment
Chapter 5
Culture, Consumerism, and Character
Chronic Illness and Patient Advocacy in the 1980s and 1990s
Chapter 6
A Slight Hysterical Tendency
Revisiting “The Girl Who Cried Pain”
Chapter 7
Into the Fray
Patients in the Digital Age
Chapter 8
Participatory Medicine and Transparency
Chapter 9
What Future, at What Cost?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
By the Same Author
A Note on the Author
For Victoria,
my joy
Introduction
When I was growing up in the 1980s and ’90s, Boston’s famed Longwood
Medical Area was as much my place of education as the small parochial
grammar school I attended. Some of my most vivid memories were of my
mother driving me down Route 9 to my doctor appointments, past the strip
malls and chain restaurants of the western suburbs, past the reservoir in
Brookline, where the crimson autumn leaves formed a circle around the
gray expanse of water. These morning drives are almost always sunny and
autumnal in my memory; we would squint up as we were stopped at traffic
lights, always worried about being a little late, always underestimating the
drive or underestimating our likelihood of getting every red light through
three or four towns.
If it was a good appointment, I’d leave with an antibiotic script for my
ever-present ear and sinus infections, a follow-up appointment, or a referral
for yet another specialist for my wheezy lungs. If it was a bad appointment,
it would usually involve a CT scan, a blood test, or the scheduling of
another surgery. Either way, we’d get in the car and head back down Route
9, usually too late for me to make it back to school—I knew this would
happen but wore my uniform anyway—but just early enough to beat rush-
hour traffic. We would talk about my upcoming surgery, or about the books
I would get as presents for my recovery, or the classes I’d missed and the
sleepover I hoped I’d make it to on the weekend.
But chronic illness? I don’t remember hearing that term, and I certainly
don’t remember using it in reference to my own patient experiences. I lived
in reaction to each illness event, never quite acknowledging the larger
pattern.
It wasn’t just another infection, another setback, another disruption. It
wasn’t going to go away.
Certainly, I don’t blame the grade school version of myself for
overlooking this distinction, or the high school and college version, either.
Even if I knew it intellectually by then, emotionally it was another
adjustment altogether. And I know I wasn’t alone. In fact, I think this is the
most daunting aspect of any chronic illness, whether you are the patient
grappling with a diagnosis or a healthy person who hopes it never happens
to you: It isn’t going .
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hilip Berman, a 25-year-old single unemployed former copy editor for a large publishing
house, . . . had been hospitalized after a suicide attempt in which he deeply gashed his
wrist with a razor blade. He described [to the therapist] how he had sat on the bathroom
floor and watched the blood drip into the bathtub for some time before he telephoned
his father at work for help. He and his father went to the hospital emergency room to have
the gash stitched, but he convinced himself and the hospital physician that he did not need
hospitalization. The next day when his father suggested he needed help, he knocked his dinner
to the floor and angrily stormed to his room. When he was calm again, he allowed his father
to take him back to the hospital.
The immediate precipitant for his suicide attempt was that he had run into one of his former
girlfriends with her new boyfriend. The patient stated that they had a drink together, but all the
while he was with them he could not help thinking that “they were dying to run off and jump
in bed.” He experienced jealous rage, got up from the table, and walked out of the restaurant.
He began to think about how he could “pay her back.”
Mr. Berman had felt frequently depressed for brief periods during the previous several years. He
was especially critical of himself for his limited social life and his inability to have managed to
have sexual intercourse with a woman even once in his life. As he related this to the therapist,
he lifted his eyes from the floor and with a sarcastic smirk said, “I’m a 25-year-old virgin. Go
ahead, you can laugh now.” He has had several girlfriends to date, whom he described as very
attractive, but who he said had lost interest in him. On further questioning, however, it became
apparent that Mr. Berman soon became very critical of them and demanded that they always
meet his every need, often to their own detriment. The women then found the relationship very
unrewarding and would soon find someone else.
During the past two years Mr. Berman had seen three psychiatrists briefly, one of whom had
given him a drug, the name of which he could not remember, but that had precipitated some
sort of unusual reaction for which he had to stay in a hospital overnight. . . . Concerning his
hospitalization, the patient said that “It was a dump,” that the staff refused to listen to what
he had to say or to respond to his needs, and that they, in fact, treated all the patients “sadisti-
cally.” The referring doctor corroborated that Mr. Berman was a difficult patient who demanded
that he be treated as special, and yet was hostile to most staff members throughout his stay.
After one angry exchange with an aide, he left the hospital without leave, and subsequently
signed out against medical advice.
Mr. Berman is one of two children of a middle-class family..
The document discusses the importance of medical professionals understanding patients' cultural backgrounds when assessing their needs. It provides examples of how cultural understanding can reduce prejudice, build mutual respect, and help professionals better understand how different groups experience illnesses. The presentation aims to share the presenter's experience researching the lives of lupus patients, including the challenges faced and methods used like interviews, observation, and qualitative data analysis. It also discusses themes that emerged around daily experiences, strategies for coping, and the social context of dying. The presentation concludes by linking findings to improving care practices.
Christopher is a non-traditional graduate student pursuing a Masters in Chemistry at the University of Michigan. He serves in several leadership roles in the graduate student government, including as the Rackham Student Government Representative and Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee. The document discusses Christopher's experiences in polyamorous relationships and alternative lifestyles. It explores the challenges of acceptance for non-traditional relationships and identities. Christopher shares personal stories and insights into practicing polyamory successfully through open communication, negotiating agreements, and navigating jealousy.
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This document summarizes a psychoanalyst's perspective on reducing sexual boundary violations in the consulting room. The psychoanalyst argues that psychoanalysis would benefit from shifting its focus from extreme cases of violations to exploring the universal experience of erotic and negative transference. Sex therapy training, which includes role-playing exercises on communication about sexuality, promotes openness and prevents violations better than psychoanalysis' current approach. However, laws, ethics codes, and views within psychoanalysis are inconsistent on defining and addressing violations, especially post-termination. The psychoanalyst calls for psychoanalysis to learn from the unambiguous stance of sex therapy in prohibiting all therapist-patient sexual relationships.
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A Call for More Talk and Less Abuse in the Consulting Room:
One Psychoanalyst–Sex Therapist’s Perspective
Elizabeth R. Goren, PhD
New York University
Guilt, titillation, and anxious confusion about sexuality and sexual relations between therapist and patient
pervade the psychoanalytic community. Review of state laws and regulations as well as professional
ethics codes reveals a lack of certainty about what constitutes professional misconduct, especially
posttermination. Comparing the training approaches of sex therapy and psychoanalysis, the author
suggests that psychoanalysis will benefit from shifting its focus on extreme cases of egregious sexual
boundary violations onto greater in-depth exploration of clinically universal experience of powerful
erotic and negative transference and countertransference. Innovative and experiential educational formats
that promote openness, acceptance, confidence, and skill with these dynamics are the best prevention.
Keywords: psychoanalysis, sex therapy, boundary violations, ethics training
I was a sex therapist for many years before becoming an analyst.
My training in sex therapy took place in the 1970s, the era of
sexual liberation and the initial rise of the behavior therapy move-
ment, before the terms sexual boundary violations (SBV) and risk
management had entered professional discourse. One of my first
sex therapy courses involved a series of role-playing exercises,
including one of taking turns giving and receiving massage, a
standard sex therapy homework assignment. This is a teaching tool
that could never be a part of a professional curriculum in today’s
climate of increased sensitivity to sexual abuse and risk manage-
ment approach to training and education. We were clothed, and
touch was restricted to the kind of back, neck, arms, and hands
massage now offered in airports and nail salons. Role-playing
patient and therapist, we talked about our bodies and sexuality in
a very personal and detailed way with one another.
I offer this vignette in the spirit of bringing the perspective of
other treatment models, specifically sex therapy, to our psychoan-
alytic approach to the problem of SBV. As I look back, I recall my
sex therapy mentors repeatedly and sharply reminding us how
crucial it was to maintain the therapeutic frame and professional
boundaries. The reputation and very legitimacy of this new form of
psychotherapy were at stake. To this day, sex therapists are mind-
ful of not being confused with sex surrogates!
Despite the marked differences in thinking and approach, psy-
choanalysis and sex therapy are the treatment modalities most
dedicated to intense clinical work with sex and sexuality. How-
ever, in contrast to psychoanalysis, sex therapy has historically
taken a strong unambiguous stand against therapists ever becom-
ing sexually or romantically involved with patients. Equally im-
portant, sex therapy is more dedicated than psychoanalysis to
training that focuses on developing “.
This document is the July 2009 issue of Public Health Alert, a newsletter about Lyme disease and chronic illnesses. The main stories discuss an interview with Dr. Garth Nicolson about the importance of treating Mycoplasma infections in chronic Lyme disease patients. Another article discusses how Lyme disease bacteria can reside in the mouth and teeth, as revealed through interviews with Dr. Andrew Landerman, a biological dentist who uses homeopathy to address Lyme in the teeth. Other brief articles announce upcoming events, award winners, and perspectives on various topics related to Lyme disease and chronic illness.
Dr. Maureen Osborne will give a plenary address at the Transgender Spectrum Conference reflecting on her experience as a gender therapist over two decades. She will discuss how her views have evolved from seeing gender dysphoria as a condition to be treated, to understanding gender as a spectrum. Her talk will explore the stories of transgender clients and their families, and how therapy can be life-saving by encouraging self-exploration and offering solutions. Dr. Osborne will also lead a breakout workshop examining the guilt, shame, and fear that stems from societal transphobia, and ways to manage these emotions without abandoning consideration for loved ones. Additionally, she will host a Q&A after a screening of the
This book provides an overview of several key topics related to interpreting chronic illness through the lens of homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, and biomedicine. It explores the relationship between the five senses and Chinese medicine's five elements. Each element chapter examines examples of illnesses, related homeopathic remedies, and how they connect to concepts in each medical model. While briefly introducing each system, the focus is on exploring ideas rather than clinical application. It aims to provide a new framework for understanding health, though leaves some questions unanswered about reconciling aspects of different systems in practice. Overall, it offers food for thought in charting connections between these approaches.
This document is a directed research project submitted to American University examining how the Lung Cancer Alliance fights stigma against lung cancer. It begins with acknowledgements and is followed by an abstract, table of contents, and introduction section outlining the goals of understanding how to fight stigmatized disease through examining LCA's efforts. The literature review then surveys research on defining stigma, diseases facing stigma like lung cancer, HIV/AIDS, and cancer, and best practices for fighting stigma.
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The work was presented during the II Workshop on Medical Anthropology in Rome, October 14th - 15th 2011.
The document summarizes several sources that discuss what triggers evil actions in people. Source 3 describes a psychology experiment conducted at Stanford University where participants took on roles as prisoners or guards and the guards gradually became crueler as they embraced their roles. Source 6 discusses how American society has become desensitized to violence through media portrayals and how this normalizes violence. The sources presented various perspectives on what triggers evil, including genetic factors, brain biology, mental illness, media influence, public policy, and the glorification of violence.
Stanley Falkow began his career interested in understanding what made some bacteria pathogenic while others were not. Through his graduate studies and early research, he helped pioneer the fields of bacterial genetics and molecular biology. While his early experiments did not find specific genes responsible for pathogenicity, his work on plasmids led him to realize their important role in bacterial evolution and virulence. The development of recombinant DNA technology then allowed his lab to clone the first bacterial virulence factor. Throughout his career, Falkow continued exploring what defines a pathogen on a genetic and molecular level.