He Looks Like My Father.

Social media has kept us connected in many ways but for Black adults, it can be a harrowing reminder of the treatment of Black bodies. This poem was crafted from focus group data on a study of the effects of vicarious racism on the mental health of Black adults in the wake of George Floyd's death in 2020. This poem uses elements of found poetry and incorporates texts from the narrative (re)telling of Black adults' emotional impact of seeing racially and police-involved killings of Black men. Participants expressed feelings of anger, powerlessness, and sadness and how watching these videos has led to avoidance behavior for the sake of coping. In this poem titled "He Looks like My Father," the participant shares a memory of the last video that they watched on social media in 2014 and why they continue to avoid this type of content. It's traumatizing. It is important to fully reflect on these stories as Black Americans struggle with staying informed and preserving their mental health while being inundated by a continuous feedback loop of Black death. The elements of this poem incorporate repetition and the bolded words are verbatim text from the participant transcript. I acknowledge that my positionality being a Black American woman, with a Black father, and having shared the embodied experience of witnessing Black death via social media influenced the meaning of this poem. As we continue to see a focus on naming racism as a public health threat, this form of vicarious racism is salient and should be explored as health professionals dig deeper into understanding the many ways racism permeates the lives of Black, is a daily stressor, and is a social determinant of mental health equity. These are the narratives from muted lips to unveil your eyes. To view the original version of this poem, see the supplemental material section of this article online.

Ethical issues facing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in India.

A successful Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is often the only hope of survival for children suffering from a range of potentially life-threatening hematological malignancies. The financial, ethical, and emotional problems faced by the matched sibling donor and their recipient siblings during the HSCT are extremely complex and challenging. Herein, the authors have attempted to pen down these in the configuration of a poem.

La poesía como herramienta didáctica para promover el bienestar personal y social a través de la interiorización y del uso educativo del haiku / Poetry as a teaching tool to promote personal and social welfare through interiorizationand the educational use of haiku

La poesía es un elemento excepcional para promover el bienestar personal y social. Esto se debe a sus posibilidades como recurso didáctico. Es un género que promueve movimientos de intensión y extensión para poder entendernos mejor a nosotros mismos, a los otros y el mundo que nos rodea. Por todo ello, el docente puede hacer uso de recursos poéticos en sus clases a la hora de despertar la atención de sus alumnos en relación a diversos entornos que han de interpretar y comprender de la mejor manera posible. Esto redundará en una mejora del bienestar propio y ajeno. En particular, el uso del haiku como recurso poético nos parece adecuado para lograr tales metas pues es una tipología de poema de especial intensidad y claridad por sus convenciones genéricas.

Poetry is an exceptional element to promote personal and social welfare. This is due to its possibilities as a teaching tool. It is a genre which promotes intensional and extensional motions in order to reach a better understanding of ourselves, the othersand the world around us. Thus, teachers can use poetic resources in their classes in order to awake their students? attention in relation to the different environments they should interpret and understand as well as possible. This will offer an improvement in both their own welfare and the others?. In particular, the use of haiku as a poetic resource can be considered appropriate to reach these goals since it is a very intense and clear typology of poetry due to its own generic conventions.

Viewing Children's Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence Through a Developmental, Social-Ecological, and Survivor Lens: The Current State of the Field, Challenges, and Future Directions.

Although some children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) demonstrate resilience, the population-level health consequences of exposure across the lifespan and the related social and economic costs of such exposure are enormous. Using a developmental and social-ecological perspective, this article summarizes the literature examining the effects of IPV exposure on children, reviews key underlying mechanisms, and suggests the use of a public health prevention approach. It presents a discussion of next steps and identification of key challenges. One of the authors, a survivor of child exposure to IPV, presents a vignette that augments key sections and highlights children's resilience.

[Experience and insights of schistosomiasis elimination in Yujiang County of Jiangxi Province-Commemoration of the 60th anniversary of publishing Chairman Mao Zedong's two poems"Farewell to the God of Plague"].

Schistosomiasis is one of the major infectious diseases that seriously endanger the health of people, and social and economic development. Before the year of 1949, Yujiang County of Jiangxi Province was one of hyper-endemic regions for schistosomiasis. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, under the leadership and high attention of the Chinese Communist Party and the government, after the arduous struggle with schistosomiasis, Yujiang County became the first county that reached the standard of eradication of schistosomiasis in 1958. Moreover, Chairman Mao Zedong gladly wrote the famous poem of "Farewell to the God of Plague". Since then, the work of schistosomiasis control has been greatly inspired by the poem. In 2016, Yujiang County became the first county of schistosomiasis elimination in Jiangxi Province. In this paper, the experience and process of eradication and elimination of schistosomiasis in Yujiang County are systematically reviewed and summarized by analyzing the endemic situation of schistosomiasis before and after the eradication and elimination in Yujiang County, to expound the significance and enlightenment of the schistosomiasis control in Yujiang County. This paper commemorates the 60th anniversary of the publication of Mao Zedong's poem.

"The Poor Mystery of My body": The Sanctity of the Human in Illness and Death.

Respect for the human body is a fundamental principle of health care. This article examines a selection of the work of three Polish poets who lived through the agonies of World War II. The author reflects on the lessons that can be drawn from their work for clinical care, including Palliative Care, the dignity of the human person and the nature of suffering.

"Losing My Self": A Poet's Ironies and a Daughter's Reflections on Dementia.

What can we learn about the experience of dementia and about ways of being human when a poet describes her forgetting? My mother, the poet Shirley Kaufman, died in 2016 at the age of 93. She had dementia for many years. By her mid-80s, many of her poems probed the experience of forgetting, including questions about the nature of self, memory, and thought, and the location of the past and the future. Her experience of forgetting revealed in her ninth and last collection, the widely acclaimed Ezekiel's Wheels (2009), serves as my entry point for an exploration of the self as it becomes dislocated in time yet remains attuned to and consciously aware of that dislocation. That dual quality of my mother's experience is the central, ironic tension explored in this essay. An intimate ethnography, this essay connects my mother's late-life poetry with my own experience, both as a daughter who watched her mother's state of mind unfold and as an anthropologist with extensive experience studying aging, late-life identity, illness, and the culture of medicine. Through the insights of my mother's poetic language I show how dementia can expose ironic features of selfhood, communication, and life itself that are worth our discernment. My hope is that my analysis may focus our gaze on the inherent tension in this form of life and teach us something new about identity, memory, and what is shared among us, those with and without the condition we call dementia.

"Anything That Gets Me in My Heart": Pat Parker's Poetry of Justice.

This article argues that love and justice are interlocking themes that undergird and motivate the poetry and activism of the Black lesbian feminist Pat Parker. Parker was a prolific working-class poet, a committed Black lesbian feminist, and an international trailblazer whose poems, like her famous "Womanslaughter" discussed in this article, document the many injustices that Black women endured in an anti-Black, rabidly homophobic, and patriarchal U.S. during the last decades of the twentieth century. In a political moment where righteous cries of #BlackLivesMatter are heard across the United States I use this article to remind us all of the historical importance that Black lesbians played and continue to play in the struggles of anti-racist justice in America.

"A Geography of Disparate Spirits": Pathology as Oppression in "A Woman is Talking to Death" and "Mental".

This article foregrounds Judy Grahn's commitment to social justice and chiefly considers her nine-part poems: "A Woman is Talking to Death" and "Mental." These poems illuminate the socially constructed nature of mental illness and challenge readers to consider how and why the characters within them are deemed mentally ill. Little, if any, scholarship has been devoted to using Grahn's poetry, and particularly "Mental," as a framework for analyzing the pathologization of people, especially women, relative to the system of mental health. Her work remains relevant to critical conversations that illuminate contemporary issues of oppression that still haunt us today.

Intergenerational Yearnings and Other "Acts of Perversion": Or Where Would I Be Without Lesbian Drumming?

This article explores the (il)legibilities of race, gender, sexuality, and interracial solidarity between two feminist generations. Using the words of Judy Grahn and Pat Parker, the author juxtaposes her own experience and writings as a queer, Black, feminist, born in 1971 with their dyke, feminist writings of the same period, asking "Where Would I Be, Without You?" Central to this question is a queer re-imagining of queer past and future in an effort to understand the potential for interracial, feminist solidarity in the twenty-first century.

Poetic justice: engaging in participatory narrative analysis to find solace in the "killer corridor".

The author engaged with adolescents at a community-based youth organization as "co-researchers" to delve deeper into the lived experiences of youth of color residing in an urban neighborhood undergoing change. Participatory narrative analysis was used to empower participants to produce texts to make sense of their lives and their home, school, and neighborhood contexts. The process of engaging youth as co-researchers and experts in issues pertaining to their own neighborhood is discussed. Nuanced analyses of poems-as-data is shown to be critical in informing the recent surge of interdisciplinary, community-engaged, place-based initiatives focused on neighborhood revitalization, violence prevention, and positive youth development.

'Shooting at the sun god Apollo': the Apollonian-Dionysian balance of the TimeSlips Storytelling Project.

In The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche celebrated the dueling forces of reason and emotion as personified by the ancient Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus. A subtle Apollonian-Dionysian balance can be observed in TimeSlips, a group-based creative storytelling activity developed in the 1990s and increasingly used in dementia care settings worldwide. This article explains how the Apollonion-Dionysian aspects of TimeSlips are beneficial not only for persons with dementia, but also for their carers. Narrative data from medical students at Penn State College of Medicine who participated in TimeSlips at a local retirement community are shared.

Amamentação em ação: validação de tecnologia assistiva para cegos / Breastfeeding in action: assistive technology validation for the blind

Promover saúde é também capacitar cidadãos para atuarem sobre determinantes da própria saúde, inclusive pessoas com deficiência. Assim, materiais educativos em saúde acessíveis aos cegos passíveis de ser veiculados na rede web poderão ampliar sua independência e autonomia e são denominados tecnologia assistiva. Nesta pesquisa, trabalhou-se com a tecnologia "Amamentação em ação". Esta é uma literatura de cordel e como tal apresenta característica peculiar que exibe como estratégia lúdica, a rima. Os folhetos foram selecionados por tal atributo e a amamentação por ser conteúdo importante e seus índices estarem aquém do recomendado pelos órgãos competentes. Este tema é vivenciado por muitas mulheres e representa momento de amor entre mãe e filho. Além disso, apresenta menor risco de desenvolver doenças às crianças amamentadas. Objetivou-se validar tecnologia assistiva sobre amamentação para cegos na modalidade literatura de cordel em áudio através do acesso online para promoção da saúde. Trata-se de pesquisa do tipo desenvolvimento metodológico utilizando modelo da psicometria. A pesquisa foi desenvolvida no Laboratório de Comunicação em Saúde da Universidade Federal do Ceará. A amostra foi constituída de 124 sujeitos com idade mínima de 18 anos e domínio básico de uso do software disponível. Para coleta dos dados, utilizou-se página da web. Na mesma estavam a tecnologia e formulários para preenchimento. Para análise dos dados, calcularam-se médias e desvio padrão das variáveis quantitativas. As variáveis qualitativas foram analisadas pelos testes Qui-Quadrado e razão de verossimilhança. A comparação das médias dos tópicos foi realizada com o teste t de Student para dados independentes ou pelo teste F de Snedecor (ANOVA). Consideraram-se significantes as análises quando p < 0,05. O projeto foi aprovado pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da Universidade Federal do Ceará. A maioria dos sujeitos tinha idade de 30-49 anos (61,3%), sexo feminino (51,6%), cursaram o ensino médio (48,4%), não casados (55,6%), com renda de até um salário mínimo (2012 - R$ 622,00 / 2013 - R$673,00) (40,3%), que trabalham (75,0%), residem no Nordeste (90,3%), aposentados (21,8%) e com cegueira de nascença (51,6%). Em relação à avaliação da tecnologia assistiva, pelas médias encontradas, todos os tópicos foram favoráveis, objetivo (93,6 ± 10,7), organização (87,0 ± 14,5), estilo de áudio (86,7 ± 15,6) e motivação (88,9 ± 15,3), e a mesma foi considerada estratégia válida de promoção da saúde. Após avaliação da tecnologia, foi perceptível que a mesma atingiu aos objetivos propostos e metas pretendidas, com boa organização geral, estrutura, estratégia de apresentação e coerência, além de apropriada compreensão e bom estilo de áudio, com capacidade de causar impacto, motivação e/ou interesse. Como profissional responsável pela promoção da saúde, o enfermeiro deve se envolver cada vez mais no ambiente real dos sujeitos para diagnóstico situacional e consequente intervenção eficaz. (AU)

'Is getting well ever an art?': Psychopharmacology and madness in Robert Lowell's Day by Day.

On the publication of Robert Lowell's Life Studies in 1959, some critics were shocked by the poet's use of seemingly frank autobiographical material, in particular the portrayal of his hospitalizations for bipolar disorder. During the late fifties and throughout the sixties, a rich vein, influenced by Lowell, developed in American poetry. Also during this time, the nascent science of psychopharmacology competed with and complemented the more established somatic treatments, such as psychosurgery, shock treatments, and psychoanalytical therapies. The development of Thorazine was a remarkable breakthrough allowing patients previously thought incurable to leave hospital. In 1955, the release of Miltown, the first 'minor' tranquilizer, was heralded with a media fanfare promising a new dawn of psychological cure-all. These two events blurred the boundary between 'normality' and madness by making treatment in the community more widely possible and by medicalizing more commonplace distress. Lowell's early depictions of madness situate it as emblematic of the cultural malaise of 'the tranquilized fifties.' By his final collection, Day by Day (1977), mental illness had lost its symbolic power. These late poems explore the power of art as a way of representing and remedying suffering in a culture where psychopharmacology has normalized madness.