Alexandra C H Nowakowski
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 91354 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alexandra C H Nowakowski |
| NOMBRES | Alexandra C H |
| APELLIDO | Nowakowski |
| FIRMA | NOWAKOWSKI A C H |
| AFILIACIONES | Florida State University College of Medicine |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Heart Lessons for Creative Scholars
With The Artist Academic, Dr. Patricia Leavy offers creative scholars an actionable primer on listening to our hearts. It provides guidance on balancing critical reasoning and gut intuition with raw candor—and thus exceptional credibility. Leavy offers readers pearl after pearl from her own experiences in writing and publishing, bravely laying her own heart bare to impart the lessons in its scars. She writes with fierce humility, something I have…
Lessons learned about publication of results of community surveys when regulatory oversight has not occurred
We conducted a survey in an online forum without prior IRB approval which yielded information we wanted to share with the medical community. We sought approaches to ethically publish the survey's results. Address the ethical issues raised by considering publication of community forum perspectives without prior regulatory oversight or written informed consent. A research ethics consultation identified two approaches: 1) assessing community perspec…
Collective Care
Regional Risk
Prevalence of single and multiple chronic conditions continues to increase in the United States. Chronic conditions predict significant morbidity and health care costs, especially when complicated by additional conditions. Likewise, many conditions are linked to health risk behaviors, and thus amenable to prevention. We examine regional differences in prevalence of single and multiple chronic conditions. In the process, we examine the ability of …
Reframing health and illness
In this collaborative autoethnography, we examine the processes whereby people may reframe their interpretations and understandings of health and illness as a result of new diagnostic information. In so doing, we utilise the first author's experience receiving a conclusive diagnosis of cystic fibrosis after years of misdiagnosis to outline some ways changes in diagnosis facilitate shifts in illness management, the nature of health and illness and…
Health Disparities in Nonreligious and Religious Older Adults in the United States
In this paper, we compute prevalence estimates for nonreligious and religious people in relation to 16 common chronic conditions in contemporary American society. Using survey data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project, we speak to current debates concerning potential relationships between religion, nonreligion and health in older adult populations with two key findings. First, we show no consistent relationships between religi…
Does Inflammation Mediate Relationships Between Racial Identity and Onset of Menopause Among US Adults
Exploring Black-White Differences in the Relationship Between Inflammation and Timing of Menopause
An Interactionist Approach to the Social Construction of Deities
This paper examines the ways people construct and signify deities. Utilizing responses from an ethnographic study as well as analyses of existing studies of religion, we elaborate ways people construct the existence and characteristics of deities by engaging in “deity work,” which we define as the work people do to give meaning to deities as well as to themselves, others, or social phenomena related to deities. In so doing, we demonstrate how peo…
None of the above
This conversation explores emerging debates concerning teaching to and about marginalized populations often left out of “representative” data sets. Based on our experiences studying, teaching, and belonging to some of these unrepresented populations, we outline some strategies sociologists may use to transform the limitations of data sets traditionally labeled as representative into tools for delivering core sociological concepts. In so doing, we…
Hope is a four-letter word
In this autoethnography, I explore the process and emotional experience of trying a new drug to improve my quality of life. In so doing, I synthesise personal history with extant research on chronic illness by analysing ways in which my experiences reflect and reject social norms. I also incorporate perspectives from research on aspirations and attainment, and the mental health consequences of cyclical disappointment. By weaving together lessons …
Do religiosity and spirituality really matter for social, mental, and physical health
Some prior research has found that religiosity and spirituality can be related to health. However, the relationships are inconsistent, measures of religiosity and spirituality are often problematic and conflated with the health outcomes they are supposed to predict, and very little research on this topic specifies which aspects of health supposedly benefit from religiosity and spirituality. Using two sets of survey data (Sample 1 N = 347; Sample …
Exploring the Cultural and Social Context of Black Infant Mortality
This community-based participatory research study explores perceptions about infant mortality among Black women in Leon and Gadsden counties of North Florida. It emphasizes engagement and leadership for community organizers and health profession students and partnership building across disciplines. Three focus groups were conducted with Black women (N=20) ages 19 to 68. Participants responded to questions about infant mortality definitions, commu…
Should We Talk about the Pain? Personalizing Sociology in the Medical Sociology Classroom
This article discusses the potential of personalizing sociology curriculum, specifically in Medical Sociology courses, to increase student engagement and sociological awareness. Based on our experiences offering separate Medical Sociology courses at a large public research university and a small private teaching university, respectively, we outline emotional techniques we have each employed—separately and together—in our classes to facilitate stu…
Swell Foundations
We assess prior research identifying potential causal links between social disadvantage and chronic inflammation, using Fundamental Social Causes (see Link and Phelan 1995 Link, Bruce G. and Jo Phelan. 1995. “Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Disease.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 36:80–94.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) and gender theory.We use ordinary least-squares regression to investigate how social struc…
None of the above
This conversation explores emerging debates concerning teaching to and about marginalized populations often left out of “representative” data sets. Based on our experiences studying, teaching, and belonging to some of these unrepresented populations, we outline some strategies sociologists may use to transform the limitations of data sets traditionally labeled as representative into tools for delivering core sociological concepts. In so doing, we…
Reframing health and illness
In this collaborative autoethnography, we examine the processes whereby people may reframe their interpretations and understandings of health and illness as a result of new diagnostic information. In so doing, we utilise the first author's experience receiving a conclusive diagnosis of cystic fibrosis after years of misdiagnosis to outline some ways changes in diagnosis facilitate shifts in illness management, the nature of health and illness and…
Should We Talk about the Pain? Personalizing Sociology in the Medical Sociology Classroom
This article discusses the potential of personalizing sociology curriculum, specifically in Medical Sociology courses, to increase student engagement and sociological awareness. Based on our experiences offering separate Medical Sociology courses at a large public research university and a small private teaching university, respectively, we outline emotional techniques we have each employed—separately and together—in our classes to facilitate stu…
Swell Foundations
We assess prior research identifying potential causal links between social disadvantage and chronic inflammation, using Fundamental Social Causes (see Link and Phelan 1995 Link, Bruce G. and Jo Phelan. 1995. “Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Disease.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 36:80–94.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) and gender theory.We use ordinary least-squares regression to investigate how social struc…
Hope is a four-letter word
In this autoethnography, I explore the process and emotional experience of trying a new drug to improve my quality of life. In so doing, I synthesise personal history with extant research on chronic illness by analysing ways in which my experiences reflect and reject social norms. I also incorporate perspectives from research on aspirations and attainment, and the mental health consequences of cyclical disappointment. By weaving together lessons …
Do religiosity and spirituality really matter for social, mental, and physical health
Some prior research has found that religiosity and spirituality can be related to health. However, the relationships are inconsistent, measures of religiosity and spirituality are often problematic and conflated with the health outcomes they are supposed to predict, and very little research on this topic specifies which aspects of health supposedly benefit from religiosity and spirituality. Using two sets of survey data (Sample 1 N = 347; Sample …
An Interactionist Approach to the Social Construction of Deities
This paper examines the ways people construct and signify deities. Utilizing responses from an ethnographic study as well as analyses of existing studies of religion, we elaborate ways people construct the existence and characteristics of deities by engaging in “deity work,” which we define as the work people do to give meaning to deities as well as to themselves, others, or social phenomena related to deities. In so doing, we demonstrate how peo…
Collective Care
Health Disparities in Nonreligious and Religious Older Adults in the United States
In this paper, we compute prevalence estimates for nonreligious and religious people in relation to 16 common chronic conditions in contemporary American society. Using survey data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project, we speak to current debates concerning potential relationships between religion, nonreligion and health in older adult populations with two key findings. First, we show no consistent relationships between religi…
Exploring Black-White Differences in the Relationship Between Inflammation and Timing of Menopause
Exploring the Cultural and Social Context of Black Infant Mortality
This community-based participatory research study explores perceptions about infant mortality among Black women in Leon and Gadsden counties of North Florida. It emphasizes engagement and leadership for community organizers and health profession students and partnership building across disciplines. Three focus groups were conducted with Black women (N=20) ages 19 to 68. Participants responded to questions about infant mortality definitions, commu…
Should We Talk about the Pain? Personalizing Sociology in the Medical Sociology Classroom
This article discusses the potential of personalizing sociology curriculum, specifically in Medical Sociology courses, to increase student engagement and sociological awareness. Based on our experiences offering separate Medical Sociology courses at a large public research university and a small private teaching university, respectively, we outline emotional techniques we have each employed—separately and together—in our classes to facilitate stu…
Swell Foundations
We assess prior research identifying potential causal links between social disadvantage and chronic inflammation, using Fundamental Social Causes (see Link and Phelan 1995 Link, Bruce G. and Jo Phelan. 1995. “Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Disease.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 36:80–94.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) and gender theory.We use ordinary least-squares regression to investigate how social struc…
An Interactionist Approach to the Social Construction of Deities
This paper examines the ways people construct and signify deities. Utilizing responses from an ethnographic study as well as analyses of existing studies of religion, we elaborate ways people construct the existence and characteristics of deities by engaging in “deity work,” which we define as the work people do to give meaning to deities as well as to themselves, others, or social phenomena related to deities. In so doing, we demonstrate how peo…
None of the above
This conversation explores emerging debates concerning teaching to and about marginalized populations often left out of “representative” data sets. Based on our experiences studying, teaching, and belonging to some of these unrepresented populations, we outline some strategies sociologists may use to transform the limitations of data sets traditionally labeled as representative into tools for delivering core sociological concepts. In so doing, we…
Hope is a four-letter word
In this autoethnography, I explore the process and emotional experience of trying a new drug to improve my quality of life. In so doing, I synthesise personal history with extant research on chronic illness by analysing ways in which my experiences reflect and reject social norms. I also incorporate perspectives from research on aspirations and attainment, and the mental health consequences of cyclical disappointment. By weaving together lessons …
Do religiosity and spirituality really matter for social, mental, and physical health
Some prior research has found that religiosity and spirituality can be related to health. However, the relationships are inconsistent, measures of religiosity and spirituality are often problematic and conflated with the health outcomes they are supposed to predict, and very little research on this topic specifies which aspects of health supposedly benefit from religiosity and spirituality. Using two sets of survey data (Sample 1 N = 347; Sample …
Health Disparities in Nonreligious and Religious Older Adults in the United States
In this paper, we compute prevalence estimates for nonreligious and religious people in relation to 16 common chronic conditions in contemporary American society. Using survey data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project, we speak to current debates concerning potential relationships between religion, nonreligion and health in older adult populations with two key findings. First, we show no consistent relationships between religi…
Does Inflammation Mediate Relationships Between Racial Identity and Onset of Menopause Among US Adults
Exploring Black-White Differences in the Relationship Between Inflammation and Timing of Menopause
Regional Risk
Prevalence of single and multiple chronic conditions continues to increase in the United States. Chronic conditions predict significant morbidity and health care costs, especially when complicated by additional conditions. Likewise, many conditions are linked to health risk behaviors, and thus amenable to prevention. We examine regional differences in prevalence of single and multiple chronic conditions. In the process, we examine the ability of …
Reframing health and illness
In this collaborative autoethnography, we examine the processes whereby people may reframe their interpretations and understandings of health and illness as a result of new diagnostic information. In so doing, we utilise the first author's experience receiving a conclusive diagnosis of cystic fibrosis after years of misdiagnosis to outline some ways changes in diagnosis facilitate shifts in illness management, the nature of health and illness and…
Lessons learned about publication of results of community surveys when regulatory oversight has not occurred
We conducted a survey in an online forum without prior IRB approval which yielded information we wanted to share with the medical community. We sought approaches to ethically publish the survey's results. Address the ethical issues raised by considering publication of community forum perspectives without prior regulatory oversight or written informed consent. A research ethics consultation identified two approaches: 1) assessing community perspec…
Collective Care
Heart Lessons for Creative Scholars
With The Artist Academic, Dr. Patricia Leavy offers creative scholars an actionable primer on listening to our hearts. It provides guidance on balancing critical reasoning and gut intuition with raw candor—and thus exceptional credibility. Leavy offers readers pearl after pearl from her own experiences in writing and publishing, bravely laying her own heart bare to impart the lessons in its scars. She writes with fierce humility, something I have…
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