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Mutual Aid/Best Practices vs Local Practices

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Social Distancing at the Sunnyside Greenmarket

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How is this image relevant to your research?

This image reminds me of how mutual aid and communities keep each other fed, and safe, and how local practices are actually best practices. My own research， although not immediatley related to the specific public health concern of COVID, will focus on Indigenous food soverignty, particularly the right and autonomy to ferment and distribute alcohol (紅糯米酒) within the Amis community, and their current fight with the local health department on declaring whether or not their alcohol is "safe" for public consumption and distribution.

Conflictual Collaboration: Citizen Science and the Governance of Radioactive Contamination after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, citizen scientists collectively tracked and monitored residual radioactivity in Japan, legitimizing alternative views to an official assessm

Radioactive Performances: Teaching about Radiation after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and its release of radioac- tive contamination, the Japanese state put into motion risk communica- tion strategies to explain the danger of radiation e

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The Waiting Room

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How is the argument or narrative made and sustained? How much scientific information is provided, for example? Does the film have emotional appeal?

The Waiting Room, being a documentary, uses a plethora of personal annecdotes in order to support the argument emotionally. The arguement is supported from more than one direction which, in my opinion, makes this such an empowering film. The film combats the problem from both the patient and clinical side showing frustrations on both sides.

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Zackery.White

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Terrible Apps for Sexual Assault Prevention

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Who was the system built to serve, and why?

These application systems were designed to serve anyone who was a victim of sexual assault.

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Columbia University's Program in Narrative Medicine

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Describe the origin story of the program. What event or conditions enabled or called for its formation?

This program was started in Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Charon and colleges believed that physicians have become far too clinical and are only treating based on symptoms. Their efforts are the reason the program exists today.

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Nuclear Emergency Response: Atomic Priests or an International SWAT Team?

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What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the complexities of emergency response?

I have never hear about the 3 Mile Island accident, so I researched that. I had never heard of the fact that this happened kinda close to home. Granted it was only a partial meltdown, but still.

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Zackery.White

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Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine

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What were the methods, tools and/or data used to produce the claims or arguments made in the article or report?

All data was collected through in field studies. They implemented a structure a tested to see how if affected the population.

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Zackery.White

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A Sinking Jail

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What three points, details or references from the article did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the issues and actors described in the article?

One of the things that I was going to follow up on was the Campaign to Shut Down Rikers, but unfortunately the website has been shut down, and currently holds no content. There is currently no explanation as to why the website was taken down; at least that I could find.

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Chronic Disaster Syndrome: Displacement, Disaster Capitalism, and the Eviction of the Poor from New Orleans

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Can you learn anything from the article or report’s bibliography that tells us something about how the article or report was produced?

This article has a very lengthy bibliography which contains a variety of government resources for data collection. Many of other papers cited focus on Katrina response, this shows the ideals this article are widley supported by other researchers and scholars.