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Dixie wants an allergy
\"Dixie is jealous of the attention and sparkly bracelets her peers (who have allergies) get and so she sets out on a mission to find what she might be allergic to--with the warning to be careful what you wish for\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Exploring the ethics of using fictional stories for health education on social media to share information and emotions about the HPV vaccine: A cross-sectional study with interdisciplinary health experts
Social media is used to promote the HPV vaccine through various strategies, including the use of stories and narratives. Understanding the ethical concerns related to the use of social media in this capacity are important. The purpose of this study is to identify ethical concerns of using fictional stories to share information and emotions about the HPV vaccine on social media, ultimately to influence parents on their decision to vaccinate their child. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional survey with researchers in the fields of health communication, cancer prevention, social media, and public health ethics from October to December 2021. Respondents were presented with a fictional story that consisted of seven connected vignettes about the HPV vaccine. For each vignette, respondents were asked to rate the potential benefits and risk, as well as the potential for ethical concerns of using the fictional narrative style to share information about the HPV vaccine. Descriptive statistics summarized responses, and qualitative data were analyzed thematically. Results: On average, respondents (n = 41) perceived more benefits than risks when it comes to 1) using social media for health education generally and 2) using a story with connected vignettes for vaccine communication. The vignettes prioritizing vaccine hesitancy, positive emotion, and health equity were seen as having the most potential benefit, while the vignettes highlighting vaccine confidence and skepticism were seen as having the most potential risk. Overall, respondents felt there were several ethical concerns of note – persuasion was the most common (15 % of respondents) followed by deception (9 %) and manipulation (8 %). Qualitative data highlighted the importance of transparency and trust to avoid ethical violations and negative outcomes. Conclusions: Ethical concerns exist when using fictional stories to share health information on social media, particularly as new online technologies make it harder to tell fact from fiction. Practical and actionable recommendations for researchers must be developed, defining a range of ethical responsibilities.
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Horace and Morris say cheese (which makes Dolores sneeze!)
The timing could not be worse for Dolores the mouse when she develops a food allergy to yummy cheese right before the Everything Cheese festival.
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Eccentric Sensibilities: A Quiet Passion, a film on Emily Dickinson by Terence Davies
(Scholar Helen Vendler has noted how Dickinson’s work can echo hymns and liturgy with reverence or mockery, and discussed the poem “In the name of the Bee,” for which Dickinson replaced the holy trinity with a bee, a butterfly, and a breeze.) Meanwhile Emily’s brother Austin is away and courting; and Austin sends his family photos of himself and his fiancée, Susan Gilbert, a teacher who had been a tavern owner’s daughter reared by an aunt and older sister in different locations, and educated, like Emily, at Amherst Academy. Emily Dickinson is discussed as a celibate woman in literature and gender studies professor Benjamin Kahan’s Celibacies: American Modernism and Sexual Life, published by Duke University Press in 2013: “Despite its allergy to celibacy, modernist scholarship has always charted figures who were sexually recalcitrant, indifferent, alienated, unattached, lonely, and lifelong or periodic celibates—a partial list of whom might include Gustave Flaubert, Emily Dickinson, Baron Corvo, George Santayana, Marcel Proust, Alfred Jarry, Rainer Maria Rilke, E.M. Forster, Franz Kafka, Edna Ferber, Edith Sitwell, T. E. Lawrence, Henry Darger, Josef Sudek, J. R. Ackerley, Jorge Luis Borges, Langston Hughes, Joseph Cornell, Eudora Welty, and May Sarton” (page 9). Often people are disappointed in cinema portraits of great artists: a complex person, life, and work are summarized in a fragmentary, short audio-visual statement; and while the great artist was committed to transformation and transcendence, much of the cinema world and its audience want to know what the artist wanted to transcend: the conformities of dull days, the love affairs and drinking tastes, the dirty laundry and gossip of neighbors, the ordinary faults and questionable habits. Daniel moved to New York and became a graduate of the New School for Social Research, was an intern at Africa Report, poetry editor for the male feminist magazine Changing Men, founded and acted as principal organizer of the Cultural Politics Discussion Group at ABC No Rio and Poets House, wrote about painter Henry Tanner for Art & Antiques, and organized the first interdepartmental environmental justice meeting at Audubon.
Trade Publication Article
Absolutely Alfie and the furry purry secret
After a fun-filled summer, Alfie Jakes' mother things she should have playdates with her neighbor Hanni. Alfie isn't sure she will enjoy the playdates until Hannie shows her a basketful of kittens. Can Alfie take one home, or is she still allergic like when she was young girl?
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Fear nothing : a novel
While investigating the death of his mother who was a scientist, Chris Snow discovers she was engaged in secret experiments on a nearby military base, experiments which went wrong and which produced monsters. The next he knows, the monsters come visiting and they are not friendly.
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One for the hooks
When Sloan Renner, the woman helping her friend - Miami - clean her house, is found dead under a pile of smelly seafood, Molly Pink, a member of the Tarzana Hookers crochet club, must unravel the clues to prove that the Sloan's death was no accident.
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