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Development and utility of the online priority health index [Abstract]
(2016)
Abstract of a paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Medical Informatics & Telehealth, 2016: Because public health funds are limited we created the priority health Indices (PHIs) for diseases (PHI-DZ) and ...
Here and Now/Hear and (k)Now [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Funny, frank, informative and touching, "Here and Now/Hear and (k)Now" is a one-woman show examining female sexuality within the context of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) epidemic. It is presented through the eyes of a ...
What You Looking At Me For? : The Black Comedian as Fetish Object [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Through numerous descriptions of Africans and indigenous peoples, travel writing and other historical documents reveal that Europeans continually fetishized the bodies of the people they encountered. By thrusting the ...
Spying on Lazarus in the Cave: Keats and the Still Body in The Fall of Hyperion [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
If accepted for the conference, my presentation will be a critical exploration of John Keats' craft in The Fall of Hyperion, particularly his description of bodies. I contend that in his choice to describe still bodies, ...
Scratching the Surface : Female Scarification in the Nuba of Sudan [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This proposed paper presentation is based on research I conducted at the University of Florida for my M.A in Art History. My secondary area of interest was African art, and this will paper explore the treatment of the ...
The health care experiences of adult survivors of child sexual abuse : a systematic review of evidence on sensitive practice [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
I propose to present a poster representing findings from my article, just published in the January 2008 issue of the Journal of Trauma, Violence, and Abuse entitled, "The health care experiences of adult survivors of child ...
The Discipline of Silence : Childrens' Bodies as Public Space [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
I am a mother to two children, one eleven-year old boy in sixth grade and one nine-year old girl in the fourth grade. Their adventures through public school have been inspirational in this research, and have taken me to ...
The Death of Maternity : Decaying Female Bodies in Mary Shelley's Fiction [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
In this paper, I examine the trope of the dying woman in Mary Shelley's early works, including Frankenstein, Mathilda, and her short fiction. Critics are in general agreement that two of Frankenstein's essential subjects ...
Identifying and transforming normalcy : challenges to compulsory able-bodied oppression in the deaf community [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This paper integrates excerpts taken from a fieldwork-based, thesis-length project that examines the personal experience narratives of Deaf and Hearing mothers of Deaf children. Driven by the goal of joining folkloric ...
Large nudes [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
I started my large nude series to challenge conventional media-driven standards of beauty and show that the large body is also beautiful. The work falls into two distinct areas: in one set, my self-portraits are abstract ...
Producing the Body : Habeas Corpus and Closure in Burney's Court Diaries [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This paper is part of a larger project which investigates the ways in which eighteenth-century novelist Frances Burney's body of work (novels, plays, and life-writing) create a sense (or no-sense) of an ending. In this ...
What we can freeze from the body and why : a historical, physical, and mathematical introduction [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
The public often links cryobiology, the study of biological materials at low temperatures, with the science fiction of whole body and head freezing, but in reality successful cryopreservation of biological materials is ...
The Outer Space : Representations of White Bodies in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart uses white bodies to connote abnormalcy in African culture at the start of colonialism. Written as a counter-hegemonic strategical novel in response to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, ...
The Suburban Body in American Modern Poetry [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Critics seem only recently to have taken note of the prevalence of the suburbs as content in American poetry. Robert Van Hallberg ends his American Poetry and Culture, 1945-1980 with a brief discussion of the poetry that ...
The Performing Body: Physical Self-Concept in Athletes [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
This paper presentation will present a review of literature on the unique way the body is negotiated in athletics and pivotal role it plays in identity development and global selfesteem. Current findings will be extended ...
Jane Austen's Dirty Jokes [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
While folklorists, including Katherine Briggs, have asserted that Jane Austen's novels contain no folklore, Jill Heydt-Stevens and other Austen scholars have argued that Austen knowingly inserts obscene humor, puns, and ...
Look into My Eyes: Subalternity and Physicallity in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
In Gayatri Spivak's "Can the Subaltern Speak?" She maintains that no the subaltern cannot speak. This is because the subaltern's identity has been constructed and shaped by western ideologies, and there is no space outside ...
Annexing the planets : the colonization of the alien body in science fiction [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Science fiction has its historical beginnings in the late colonial era, and the discourse of colonialism shares with the discourse of science fiction a terminology of discovery, exploration, conquest, mapping and the ...
Mighty Maidenhood: Medieval Women and the Attempt to Break Free from the Curse of Eve [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Throughout the middle ages, women were seen -- and condemned -- as daughters of Eve, representing the flesh and sexual desire. However, women were not left with Eve as their sole role model, since Eve has an exact opposite ...
The Rhetoric of Guilt and the Body [abstract]
(The Body Project, 2008)
Guilt is an emotion common to most individuals. It is also a less common rhetorical device used to persuade an audience toward making one decision or another. Yet, when we look at the history of rhetoric, Aristotle in ...