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Beyond Argument? Addressing The Matter Of Trust In Vaccine Hesitancy, Nicholas Kinnish
Beyond Argument? Addressing The Matter Of Trust In Vaccine Hesitancy, Nicholas Kinnish
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There is no shortage of research implicating trust as a central concern for addressing vaccine hesitancy, even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Likewise, healthcare professionals have long called for increased resources and training to address the issue. However, despite this long-standing problem, and its recent foray into the social consciousness, there is still a significant lack of resources for resolving this issue. This thesis aims to address this deficit. I offer a practical framework for healthcare practitioners, public health officials, and vaccine manufacturers for managing both trust and its related, but distinct, counterpart: distrust. This framework involves demonstrating (rather than …
Crisis And Calamity: Reimagining Canadian Ecopoetics In Response To Anthropocenic Disaster, Dakota Samuel Jabbour-Ormsby
Crisis And Calamity: Reimagining Canadian Ecopoetics In Response To Anthropocenic Disaster, Dakota Samuel Jabbour-Ormsby
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This thesis examines contemporary Canadian ecopoetry in its merging of poetry and science, human and non-human, theory and practice. While the historical relationship between Canadian writing and nature grounds the exploration of present-day discourse, the arbitrariness and pervasiveness of borders and other human conceptions become a subject of criticism for the ecopoets studied in the thesis. Ecopoetry attempts to reframe the perspective of environment in literature, away from commodifying representation and towards a holistic appreciation. Understanding is a tenuous proposition for ecopoets. Learning is vital for ecopoetic exploration, both as an intrinsic product of engaging scientific thought and an ontological …
John Dee And Prospero: Alchemy, Angels, And Empire In The Tempest, Iovan Stefanov
John Dee And Prospero: Alchemy, Angels, And Empire In The Tempest, Iovan Stefanov
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For John Dee (1527-1609), like many others in the sixteenth century, the divide between politics, science, and the occult was permeable. At the height of Dee’s career, he had assembled the largest private library in England and built bibliographic networks of likeminded intellectuals from lending and sales. His consultations varied from explanations of Euclidean geometry for sailors to providing magical advice for Elizabeth I and other European monarchs. Dee is simultaneously important to both early modern science and esoterica. The aim of this thesis is to illuminate the ways in which his politics, his colonial projects, and his occult thought …