David B Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 1025854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David B Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | David B |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Educational Studies, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, Maryland, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2964-8869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Supporting self-efficacy development from primary school to the professions: A guide for educators
Over the past 2 decades, scholars in various educational contexts have examined Bandura’s (1997) theorizing about how self-efficacy develops. Bandura proposed 4 primary informational sources of self-efficacy—enactive experiences, vicarious experiences, social persuasions, and physiological and affective states—each of which can be supported in different ways. This article first defines and situates self-efficacy and these sources within a broader…
A social cognitive perspective of educators' moral agency
By and large, teachers approach their work with the utmost care for students' intellectual, social, and emotional well-being. But even those who hold themselves to high moral standards can sometimes act in ways that harm others when they disengage self-sanctions like guilt or self-criticism. These mechanisms of moral disengagement include (1) portraying harmful acts as beneficial, (2) obscuring one's own role in harm, (3) minimizing the harmful e…
A Mixed Methods Study of Self-Efficacy, the Sources of Self-Efficacy, and Teaching Experience
Although teaching self-efficacy is associated with many benefits for teachers and students, little is known about how teachers develop a sense of efficacy in the early years of their careers. Drawing on survey ( N = 179) and interview ( N = 10) data, this study investigates the sources of self-efficacy in a national sample of teachers who participated in the Noyce program. All teachers completed an online survey that included both the Teacher Sen…
Nomad thought
The Making of Scottish Jewry: Jewish Secondary Migration through Scotland
This study places Jewish settlement in Scotland in the wider context of mass migration from Russia to the USA. It uses US passenger lists to trace a sample of Jewish migrants back to their places of origin in Russia. It also uses the 1930 US Federal Census to trace the migration paths of a sample of Scottish-born Jews after they had emigrated to the USA. Crucially, this paper argues that the Jews in Scotland did not constitute a national Jewry pr…
Optimal relief for pain at the end of life: A caregiver’s tale
The current opioid crisis-driven partly by medical overprescription and partly by illegal drug abuse-is a significant cultural and professional dilemma in the USA and elsewhere. It has produced a strong reaction in favour of restricting medical use of opioids for pain, especially chronic pain. The author for a quarter century has written about pain from a biocultural perspective, and in this essay-based on his experience as primary caregiver for …
Between East and West: Jewish Secondary Migration through Ireland and Wales, 1900–1930
This paper compares and contrasts Russian Jewish migration through Ireland and Wales during the period 1900–1930. In doing so, this paper sets out to explore two key questions: (i) Did the Jews who settled in different parts of Britain and Ireland originate from specific provinces in Russia? (ii) Did the location of Jewish settlement in Britain and Ireland have any bearing on the rate of secondary migration to the USA
Reconceptualizing the Sources of Teaching Self-Efficacy: A Critical Review of Emerging Literature
Medical Eros: Caregivers, Loss, and an Ethics of Waiting
This hybrid personal essay and scholarly article explores what, from a strictly medical point of view, is an unreasonable and entirely counter-intuitive position: that doctors and patients might do well to consider and even embrace the role of eros. Eros can stand as the classical name for the shape-shifting sensuous and passionate libidinal forces that continue to sweep through human life, from cradle to grave, and that find multiple places both…
Biocultures Manifesto
Research Article| March 01 2009 Biocultures Manifesto Lennard J. Davis; Lennard J. Davis University of Illinois at Chicago [email protected] Lennard J. Davis is a professor of English, disability studies, and medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he directs Project Biocultures. He is the author of many books and essays including Obsession: A History (University of Chicago Press, 2008) and Go Ask Your Father: One M…
Un-forgetting Asclepius: An Erotics of Illness
Theorist Georges Bataille asserts that while sex is common to all animals, only humankind turns sexual activity into erotic activity. Professional medicine today is situated in a space remote from erotic experience. Especially because doctors openly deny that eros and desire hold any relevance to illness, a denial echoed by patients who learn to repeat what doctors believe, it is important to explore a contradictory argument (with its strong supp…
Biocultures Manifesto
Biocultures Manifesto Lennard J. Davis David B. Morris It was still a radical premise when New Literary History started in 1969 that the analysis of literature needed to consider history and culture. The stand-alone, value-free model of New Criticism made earlier attempts to historicize literature or to place specific literary works in their cultural context seem old-fashioned. Today, by contrast, it is commonplace to see literary texts illuminat…
Reading Is Always Biocultural
A biocultural approach seeks to combine detailed histories and sociologies of reading with the new neuroscience of literacy played out across languages from Chinese to Navajo. Literary theorists tend to dismiss as obvious or irrelevant the ability to read. Reading is mostly employed as a synonym for interpretation and remains invisible unless (as in reception history) it bears a hermeneutic payoff. Reading, however, like writing, holds a distinct…
The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945–1990: A Handbook
These volumes were originally published in 2004. The close association between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany was a key element in the international order of the Cold War era. No country had as wide-reaching or as profound an impact on the western portion of divided Germany as the United States. No country better exemplified the East-West conflict in American thinking than Germany. The United States and Germany in the Era o…
The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945–1990: A Handbook
These volumes were originally published in 2004. The close association between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany was a key element in the international order of the Cold War era. No country had as wide-reaching or as profound an impact on the western portion of divided Germany as the United States. No country better exemplified the East–West conflict in American thinking than Germany. The United States and Germany in the Era o…
From Lesion to Metaphor: Chronic Pain in British, French and German Medical Writings, 1800-1914 (review)
This book makes a valuable, if limited, contribution to the nineteenth-century history of pain--specifically, to what Andrew Hodgkiss calls "pain without lesion." He begins by evoking the familiar clinical gaze that transforms prescientific medicine through a focus on localized lesions. "It occurred to me," he writes, "that pain without any lesion must have constituted a major difficulty for nineteenth-century physicians adopting such a praxis" (…
Light as Environment: Medicine, Health, and Values
Mind, Environment, and Culture
How to Speak Postmodern: Medicine, Illness, and Cultural Change
The modernist "biomedical model" offers an inadequate understanding of illness. At the same time, some of the conceptual constructs that are offered to supplement the biomedical model are carelessly employed. Much that is said and written about empathy and healing, in particular, fails to reflect the historical and critical self-awareness of postmodern thinking at its best. (HCR)
Public Policy and Private Promotion in Tourism: A New Type of Room Tax
In 1980 Michigan undertook a new direction in public policy with regard to room tax programmes used to fund local tourism promotion programmes. That change has led to what most in Michigan believe is a successful programmme that supports a large number of financially sound, community-based marketing organisations. It is successful because it leaves decisions about uses of funds in the hands of the lodging owners, and it limits government involvem…
The Neurobiology of the Obscene: Henry Miller and Tourette Syndrome
The Neurobiology of the Obscene: Henry Miller and Tourette Syndrome David B. Morris Instead of talking about God, I talked about sex. Sex replaced God really, in a way. That may appear sacrilegious, but ... I think it's simply a case of substituting one for the other. —Henry Miller1 Recently in upstate New York, in the town of Guilderland, a uniformed officer walked into a music store and hand-delivered a letter from Police Chief James R. Murley.…
Culture of Pain
This is a book about the meanings we make out of pain. The greatest surprise I encountered in discussing this topic over the past ten years was the consistency with which I was asked a single unvarying question: Are you writing about physical pain or mental pain? The overwhelming consistency of this response convinces me that modern culture rests upon and underlying belief so strong that it grips us with the force of a founding myth. Call it the …
How To Read The Body in Pain
How To Read The Body in Pain** David B. Morris He has seen but half the Universe who never has been shown the House of Pain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson1 A quiet revolution beginning about 1960 promises to transform centuries of medical thinking about pain. From the time of the Hippocratic writings, pain has held die clear and secure status of a symptom. In effect, Western medicine has attributed a distinctive legibility to pain, as if pain were a more…
Williams's Force
JS^ Williams's Force David B. Morris Sometimes I speak of imagination as a force, an electridty. - William Carlos Williams, Spring and All We sat in the front room and talked. He . . . wanted to know about my literary affiliations. I told him I was in medical school and he seemed disappointed that I was not in literature. — Richard C. Zbornik, describing a visit to Williams1 Imagine an ethics or moral philosophy that took as its central concern t…
Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense
Supporting self-efficacy development from primary school to the professions: A guide for educators
Over the past 2 decades, scholars in various educational contexts have examined Bandura’s (1997) theorizing about how self-efficacy develops. Bandura proposed 4 primary informational sources of self-efficacy—enactive experiences, vicarious experiences, social persuasions, and physiological and affective states—each of which can be supported in different ways. This article first defines and situates self-efficacy and these sources within a broader…
Biocultures Manifesto
Biocultures Manifesto Lennard J. Davis David B. Morris It was still a radical premise when New Literary History started in 1969 that the analysis of literature needed to consider history and culture. The stand-alone, value-free model of New Criticism made earlier attempts to historicize literature or to place specific literary works in their cultural context seem old-fashioned. Today, by contrast, it is commonplace to see literary texts illuminat…
Gothic Sublimity
Optimal relief for pain at the end of life: A caregiver’s tale
The current opioid crisis-driven partly by medical overprescription and partly by illegal drug abuse-is a significant cultural and professional dilemma in the USA and elsewhere. It has produced a strong reaction in favour of restricting medical use of opioids for pain, especially chronic pain. The author for a quarter century has written about pain from a biocultural perspective, and in this essay-based on his experience as primary caregiver for …
The Religious Sublime: Christian Poetry and Critical Tradition in Eighteenth-Century England
Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense
Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense
Gothic Sublimity
Williams's Force
JS^ Williams's Force David B. Morris Sometimes I speak of imagination as a force, an electridty. - William Carlos Williams, Spring and All We sat in the front room and talked. He . . . wanted to know about my literary affiliations. I told him I was in medical school and he seemed disappointed that I was not in literature. — Richard C. Zbornik, describing a visit to Williams1 Imagine an ethics or moral philosophy that took as its central concern t…
How To Read The Body in Pain
How To Read The Body in Pain** David B. Morris He has seen but half the Universe who never has been shown the House of Pain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson1 A quiet revolution beginning about 1960 promises to transform centuries of medical thinking about pain. From the time of the Hippocratic writings, pain has held die clear and secure status of a symptom. In effect, Western medicine has attributed a distinctive legibility to pain, as if pain were a more…
Culture of Pain
This is a book about the meanings we make out of pain. The greatest surprise I encountered in discussing this topic over the past ten years was the consistency with which I was asked a single unvarying question: Are you writing about physical pain or mental pain? The overwhelming consistency of this response convinces me that modern culture rests upon and underlying belief so strong that it grips us with the force of a founding myth. Call it the …
The Neurobiology of the Obscene: Henry Miller and Tourette Syndrome
The Neurobiology of the Obscene: Henry Miller and Tourette Syndrome David B. Morris Instead of talking about God, I talked about sex. Sex replaced God really, in a way. That may appear sacrilegious, but ... I think it's simply a case of substituting one for the other. —Henry Miller1 Recently in upstate New York, in the town of Guilderland, a uniformed officer walked into a music store and hand-delivered a letter from Police Chief James R. Murley.…
Public Policy and Private Promotion in Tourism: A New Type of Room Tax
In 1980 Michigan undertook a new direction in public policy with regard to room tax programmes used to fund local tourism promotion programmes. That change has led to what most in Michigan believe is a successful programmme that supports a large number of financially sound, community-based marketing organisations. It is successful because it leaves decisions about uses of funds in the hands of the lodging owners, and it limits government involvem…
How to Speak Postmodern: Medicine, Illness, and Cultural Change
The modernist "biomedical model" offers an inadequate understanding of illness. At the same time, some of the conceptual constructs that are offered to supplement the biomedical model are carelessly employed. Much that is said and written about empathy and healing, in particular, fails to reflect the historical and critical self-awareness of postmodern thinking at its best. (HCR)
Mind, Environment, and Culture
From Lesion to Metaphor: Chronic Pain in British, French and German Medical Writings, 1800-1914 (review)
This book makes a valuable, if limited, contribution to the nineteenth-century history of pain--specifically, to what Andrew Hodgkiss calls "pain without lesion." He begins by evoking the familiar clinical gaze that transforms prescientific medicine through a focus on localized lesions. "It occurred to me," he writes, "that pain without any lesion must have constituted a major difficulty for nineteenth-century physicians adopting such a praxis" (…
Light as Environment: Medicine, Health, and Values
The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945–1990: A Handbook
These volumes were originally published in 2004. The close association between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany was a key element in the international order of the Cold War era. No country had as wide-reaching or as profound an impact on the western portion of divided Germany as the United States. No country better exemplified the East-West conflict in American thinking than Germany. The United States and Germany in the Era o…
The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945–1990: A Handbook
These volumes were originally published in 2004. The close association between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany was a key element in the international order of the Cold War era. No country had as wide-reaching or as profound an impact on the western portion of divided Germany as the United States. No country better exemplified the East–West conflict in American thinking than Germany. The United States and Germany in the Era o…
Reading Is Always Biocultural
A biocultural approach seeks to combine detailed histories and sociologies of reading with the new neuroscience of literacy played out across languages from Chinese to Navajo. Literary theorists tend to dismiss as obvious or irrelevant the ability to read. Reading is mostly employed as a synonym for interpretation and remains invisible unless (as in reception history) it bears a hermeneutic payoff. Reading, however, like writing, holds a distinct…
Un-forgetting Asclepius: An Erotics of Illness
Theorist Georges Bataille asserts that while sex is common to all animals, only humankind turns sexual activity into erotic activity. Professional medicine today is situated in a space remote from erotic experience. Especially because doctors openly deny that eros and desire hold any relevance to illness, a denial echoed by patients who learn to repeat what doctors believe, it is important to explore a contradictory argument (with its strong supp…
Biocultures Manifesto
Biocultures Manifesto Lennard J. Davis David B. Morris It was still a radical premise when New Literary History started in 1969 that the analysis of literature needed to consider history and culture. The stand-alone, value-free model of New Criticism made earlier attempts to historicize literature or to place specific literary works in their cultural context seem old-fashioned. Today, by contrast, it is commonplace to see literary texts illuminat…
Biocultures Manifesto
Research Article| March 01 2009 Biocultures Manifesto Lennard J. Davis; Lennard J. Davis University of Illinois at Chicago [email protected] Lennard J. Davis is a professor of English, disability studies, and medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he directs Project Biocultures. He is the author of many books and essays including Obsession: A History (University of Chicago Press, 2008) and Go Ask Your Father: One M…
Medical Eros: Caregivers, Loss, and an Ethics of Waiting
This hybrid personal essay and scholarly article explores what, from a strictly medical point of view, is an unreasonable and entirely counter-intuitive position: that doctors and patients might do well to consider and even embrace the role of eros. Eros can stand as the classical name for the shape-shifting sensuous and passionate libidinal forces that continue to sweep through human life, from cradle to grave, and that find multiple places both…
Reconceptualizing the Sources of Teaching Self-Efficacy: A Critical Review of Emerging Literature
Optimal relief for pain at the end of life: A caregiver’s tale
The current opioid crisis-driven partly by medical overprescription and partly by illegal drug abuse-is a significant cultural and professional dilemma in the USA and elsewhere. It has produced a strong reaction in favour of restricting medical use of opioids for pain, especially chronic pain. The author for a quarter century has written about pain from a biocultural perspective, and in this essay-based on his experience as primary caregiver for …
Between East and West: Jewish Secondary Migration through Ireland and Wales, 1900–1930
This paper compares and contrasts Russian Jewish migration through Ireland and Wales during the period 1900–1930. In doing so, this paper sets out to explore two key questions: (i) Did the Jews who settled in different parts of Britain and Ireland originate from specific provinces in Russia? (ii) Did the location of Jewish settlement in Britain and Ireland have any bearing on the rate of secondary migration to the USA
The Making of Scottish Jewry: Jewish Secondary Migration through Scotland
This study places Jewish settlement in Scotland in the wider context of mass migration from Russia to the USA. It uses US passenger lists to trace a sample of Jewish migrants back to their places of origin in Russia. It also uses the 1930 US Federal Census to trace the migration paths of a sample of Scottish-born Jews after they had emigrated to the USA. Crucially, this paper argues that the Jews in Scotland did not constitute a national Jewry pr…
A Mixed Methods Study of Self-Efficacy, the Sources of Self-Efficacy, and Teaching Experience
Although teaching self-efficacy is associated with many benefits for teachers and students, little is known about how teachers develop a sense of efficacy in the early years of their careers. Drawing on survey ( N = 179) and interview ( N = 10) data, this study investigates the sources of self-efficacy in a national sample of teachers who participated in the Noyce program. All teachers completed an online survey that included both the Teacher Sen…
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