Cynthia J Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 2126002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia J Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia J |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Alive in Every Fibre”
In this essay, novels by Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton serve to elucidate more widely resonant value-laden distinctions between publicly embodied and quietly internalized responses to pain and pleasure. This fictional archive denigrates the demonstrativeness it associates with people marginalized by ascriptive identities of race and class while endorsing the uncommonly vibrant inner lives of particular elite white subjects. Pain and pleasure are …
On Syndemics and Social Change
Should we view the COVID-19 pandemic as an inflection point or as more of the same? Has the newly resurgent pandemic only deepened entrenched socioeconomic divisions or shone a light on them so glaring that structural change ensues? In what ways has the coronavirus sharpened established biomedical and geopolitical borders, even as, qua pandemic, it inevitably crossed them? And to what extent have the devastating effects of this first truly global…
Incarceration and Covid-19
Overcrowding can increase the risk of disease transmission, such as that of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), within United States prisons. The number of COVID-19 cases among prisoners is higher than that among the general public, and this disparity is further increased for prisoners of color. This report uses the example case of the COVID-19 pandemic to observe prison conditions and preventive efforts, address racial disparities for people of color, and gu…
American Niceness
The “affective turn” in literary criticism has been a remarkably generative one by any measure. Broad inaugural studies of affect have prepared the ground for specialized projects like these three impressive books. Each takes a single affective trope and unpacks its multivalent significance in potentially field-changing ways.Carrie Tirado Bramen’s sweeping and engaging cultural history explores the flipside of the “ugly American” stereotype. It t…
The Ache of the Actual
This essay examines the cultural pursuit of a painless ideal as a neglected context for US literary realism. Advances in anesthesia in the final decades of the nineteenth century shared with influential religious ideologies including the New Thought an assumption that a comfortable existence insulated from physical suffering represented the height of civilization. Theories connecting the civilizing process to an intensifying sensitivity to suffer…
Contagious
Reviewed by: Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative Cynthia J. Davis (bio) Priscilla Wald. Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 373 pp. Hardcover, $84.95; Paperback, $23.95. As I sat down at the computer to write this review, NPR was playing in the background, and a “Story-Corps” interview soon aired featuring a man who, as a small boy, had contracted polio during the…
The Effect of Perceived Stigma from a Health Care Provider on Access to Care Among a Low-Income HIV-Positive Population
Perceived stigma in clinical settings may discourage HIV-infected individuals from accessing needed health care services. Having good access to care is imperative for maintaining the health, well being, and quality of life of persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs). The purpose of this prospective study, which took place from January 2004 through June 2006, was to evaluate the relationship between perceived stigma from a health care provider and ac…
Health Services Utilization for People with HIV Infection
BACKGROUND: Many persons with HIV infection do not receive consistent ambulatory medical care and are excluded from studies of patients in medical care. However, these hard-to-reach groups are important to study because they may be in greatest need of services. OBJECTIVE: This study compared the sociodemographic, clinical, and health care utilization characteristics of a multisite sample of HIV-positive persons who were hard to reach with a natio…
Patients’ perception of information about Haart
The aim of this study was to profile patients' satisfaction with information they have received about HAART in relation to treatment uptake. As part of a prospective investigation into uptake and adherence to HAART, 115 participants, comprising predominantly gay men, completed validated questionnaires investigating their satisfaction with information relating to practical aspects and potential problems of HAART, perceptions of information from di…
The Doctor is In
Telling Women's Lives
Judy Long. Telling Women's Lives: Subject/Narrator/Reader/Text. New York: New York UP, 1999. 184 pp. ISBN 0-8147-5074-5, $55.00 cloth; ISBN 0-8147-5075-3, $19.50 paper
Between Doctors and Patients
Literature and Medicine - Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 1999
Women Writers in the United States
Speaking the Body's Pain
Speaking the Body's Pain
The Ache of the Actual
This essay examines the cultural pursuit of a painless ideal as a neglected context for US literary realism. Advances in anesthesia in the final decades of the nineteenth century shared with influential religious ideologies including the New Thought an assumption that a comfortable existence insulated from physical suffering represented the height of civilization. Theories connecting the civilizing process to an intensifying sensitivity to suffer…
Speaking the Body's Pain
Women Writers in the United States
Between Doctors and Patients
Literature and Medicine - Volume 18, Number 2, Fall 1999
Telling Women's Lives
Judy Long. Telling Women's Lives: Subject/Narrator/Reader/Text. New York: New York UP, 1999. 184 pp. ISBN 0-8147-5074-5, $55.00 cloth; ISBN 0-8147-5075-3, $19.50 paper
The Doctor is In
Patients’ perception of information about Haart
The aim of this study was to profile patients' satisfaction with information they have received about HAART in relation to treatment uptake. As part of a prospective investigation into uptake and adherence to HAART, 115 participants, comprising predominantly gay men, completed validated questionnaires investigating their satisfaction with information relating to practical aspects and potential problems of HAART, perceptions of information from di…
Health Services Utilization for People with HIV Infection
BACKGROUND: Many persons with HIV infection do not receive consistent ambulatory medical care and are excluded from studies of patients in medical care. However, these hard-to-reach groups are important to study because they may be in greatest need of services. OBJECTIVE: This study compared the sociodemographic, clinical, and health care utilization characteristics of a multisite sample of HIV-positive persons who were hard to reach with a natio…
The Effect of Perceived Stigma from a Health Care Provider on Access to Care Among a Low-Income HIV-Positive Population
Perceived stigma in clinical settings may discourage HIV-infected individuals from accessing needed health care services. Having good access to care is imperative for maintaining the health, well being, and quality of life of persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs). The purpose of this prospective study, which took place from January 2004 through June 2006, was to evaluate the relationship between perceived stigma from a health care provider and ac…
Contagious
Reviewed by: Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative Cynthia J. Davis (bio) Priscilla Wald. Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008. 373 pp. Hardcover, $84.95; Paperback, $23.95. As I sat down at the computer to write this review, NPR was playing in the background, and a “Story-Corps” interview soon aired featuring a man who, as a small boy, had contracted polio during the…
The Ache of the Actual
This essay examines the cultural pursuit of a painless ideal as a neglected context for US literary realism. Advances in anesthesia in the final decades of the nineteenth century shared with influential religious ideologies including the New Thought an assumption that a comfortable existence insulated from physical suffering represented the height of civilization. Theories connecting the civilizing process to an intensifying sensitivity to suffer…
American Niceness
The “affective turn” in literary criticism has been a remarkably generative one by any measure. Broad inaugural studies of affect have prepared the ground for specialized projects like these three impressive books. Each takes a single affective trope and unpacks its multivalent significance in potentially field-changing ways.Carrie Tirado Bramen’s sweeping and engaging cultural history explores the flipside of the “ugly American” stereotype. It t…
Incarceration and Covid-19
Overcrowding can increase the risk of disease transmission, such as that of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), within United States prisons. The number of COVID-19 cases among prisoners is higher than that among the general public, and this disparity is further increased for prisoners of color. This report uses the example case of the COVID-19 pandemic to observe prison conditions and preventive efforts, address racial disparities for people of color, and gu…
On Syndemics and Social Change
Should we view the COVID-19 pandemic as an inflection point or as more of the same? Has the newly resurgent pandemic only deepened entrenched socioeconomic divisions or shone a light on them so glaring that structural change ensues? In what ways has the coronavirus sharpened established biomedical and geopolitical borders, even as, qua pandemic, it inevitably crossed them? And to what extent have the devastating effects of this first truly global…
Alive in Every Fibre”
In this essay, novels by Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton serve to elucidate more widely resonant value-laden distinctions between publicly embodied and quietly internalized responses to pain and pleasure. This fictional archive denigrates the demonstrativeness it associates with people marginalized by ascriptive identities of race and class while endorsing the uncommonly vibrant inner lives of particular elite white subjects. Pain and pleasure are …
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