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- Title
- Progress, Regress.
- Creator
- Maher, Michelle., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Progress, Regress examines the narrator's journey through the world of mental illness. Psychologist Lisa James has a new client, six-year-old Megan Cooper, who has been diagnosed with child-onset schizophrenia. Megan's young age and the severity of her illness rattle Lisa, and make her question not only her role as a psychologist and a mother, but also her own mental state.
- Date Issued
- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3360951
- Subject Headings
- Mental illness, Mentally ill children, Family relationships, Schizophrenia in children, Patients
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Pseudoscience.
- Creator
- Shier, Mike., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Pseudoscience is a collection of nonfiction essays analyzing the origins and methodologies or various pseudoscientific practices against the backdrop of events from the narrator's life that mirror those practices in some way. Pseudoscience is unverifiable. Pseudoscience is unverifiable.
- Date Issued
- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359285
- Subject Headings
- Pseudoscience, Thought and thinking, Reasoning (Psychology)
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Suffering in the midst of technology: the lived experience of an abnormal prenatal ultrasound.
- Creator
- Gottlieb, Jeanne C., Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
- Abstract/Description
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The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to understand the essence of the lived experience of women after having an abnormal prenatal ultrasound. One hundred years ago, health disciplines had limited therapies for prenatal and neonatal disorders. During this period, the eugenics movement influenced leaders to involuntarily sterilize individuals who were sought to be "unfit" to prevent disorders in offspring. ... One of these contemporary reproductive genetic technologies is...
Show moreThe purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to understand the essence of the lived experience of women after having an abnormal prenatal ultrasound. One hundred years ago, health disciplines had limited therapies for prenatal and neonatal disorders. During this period, the eugenics movement influenced leaders to involuntarily sterilize individuals who were sought to be "unfit" to prevent disorders in offspring. ... One of these contemporary reproductive genetic technologies is the use of ultrasound and serum bio-medical markers for detection of congenital, chromosome, and genetic disorders. When ultrasounds reveal abnormal findings, the perceived perfect pregnancy vanishes and gives way to feelings of shock, disbelief, fear, guilt, loss, and threats to self and their unborn baby. Twelve women who had an abnormal ultrasound were interviewed within the context of their cultural values and beliefs. The method of van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenology illuminated the meaning for these women in their life worlds. ... They endured this experience through their own coping mechanisms, but often felt uncertainty and emotional turmoil until the birth. The women also sought comfort through their cultural values, beliefs, and traditions. In coping with the risks found on this abnormal ultrasound, women often selected silence or blocking perceived threats. With these coping methods, they were alone in their suffering. ... Health providers, in not recognizing these women's misunderstandings and emotional fears, abandoned them in their psychosocial and cultural needs. The significance reveals that nurses and health providers need to infuse human caring ways of being, knowing, and doing within advanced technological environments.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362381
- Subject Headings
- Medical genetics, Medical care, Decision-making, Health services accessibility, Abortion, Moral and ethical aspects, Pregnancy, Complications, Diagnostic ultrasonic imaging, Communication in medicine, Genetic counseling, Genetic disorders, Nursing, Standards
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Telomeres.
- Creator
- Oquendo, Nicole., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Telomeres is a manuscript-length lyric essay in many parts that traces the relationship of the narrator and her father as they both navigate the landscape of post-traumatic stress disorder after his return from Vietnam.
- Date Issued
- 2012
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3359283
- Subject Headings
- Post-traumatic stress disorder, Fathers and daughters, VIetnam War, 1961-1975, Veterans, Mental health, Veterans, Mental health
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Trilling R's: meditations on immigration, assimilation, and language.
- Creator
- O'Brien, Shannon., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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Immigration has become a hot button issue across the United States. Television newsmen dedicate hours of time to excoriate the "illegal invasion." I viewed the immigration debate as something not directly concerning me. I am a legal citizen of Hispanic descent. My mother is a naturalized citizen from Mexico. However, as the government conducted raids looking for illegal immigrants, my mother became more aware of her place as a Mexican woman living in the Midwest. She wondered whether people...
Show moreImmigration has become a hot button issue across the United States. Television newsmen dedicate hours of time to excoriate the "illegal invasion." I viewed the immigration debate as something not directly concerning me. I am a legal citizen of Hispanic descent. My mother is a naturalized citizen from Mexico. However, as the government conducted raids looking for illegal immigrants, my mother became more aware of her place as a Mexican woman living in the Midwest. She wondered whether people would assume she was illegal because of her accent and appearance. Our discussions prompted me to think about of my place in the story, and about my lack of connection with the Hispanic culture. I set out to interview migrants living in South Florida, and to document my and my mother's experience with immigration and assimilation.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2009
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186683
- Subject Headings
- Emigration and immigration, Assimilation (Sociology), Pluralism (Social sciences), Social adjustment, Hispanic Americans, Cultural assimilation, Emigration and immigration, Government policy
- Format
- Document (PDF)
