Yoshiko Iwai
Biographic Data
| ID | 3683751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yoshiko Iwai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yoshiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Iwai |
| SIGNATURE | IWAI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9759-384X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Death in Prison
Narrative Humility and Parasite, directed by Bong Joon Ho, 2019
Online Medical School
My clinical research mentor is a breast surgeon, a researcher, a teacher, and mother to 2. As a first-year medical student during the COVID-19 pandemic, connecting with my mentor is often the most exciting part of my day. She is the closest I get to any surgeon, the closest I feel to any operating room. Our meetings about manuscripts and data are one of the few things in my slew of Zoom lectures that feels “medical”—for the good of something larg…
Abolitionist Reimaginings of Health
In 2020, the authors of this article published "Abolition Medicine" as one contribution to international abolitionist conversations responding to widespread anti-Black police violence and inequity laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past year, there has been a surge of efforts to abolish deeply embedded patterns of race-based oppression in policing and incarceration in the United States. In this essay, the authors continue to explore how…
Commentary on “Caged Bird”
Military metaphors and pandemic propaganda
Dr Caitríona L Cox’s recent article expounds the far-reaching implications of the ‘Healthcare Hero’ metaphor. She presents a detailed overview of heroism in the context of clinical care, revealing that healthcare workers, when portrayed as heroes, face challenges in reconciling unreasonable expectations of personal sacrifice without reciprocity or ample structural support from institutions and the general public. We use narrative medicine, a fiel…
Your Patriotism Will Not Protect You
Your Patriotism Will Not Protect You: Anti-Masking Movements and the “War on Terror” Yoshiko Iwai (bio), Zahra Khan (bio), and Sayantani DasGupta (bio) “The war has changed,” declared an internal Center for Disease Control (CDC) document cited in The Washington Post on July 29, 2021.1 The Post article describes the CDC’s new guidance, including mask-wearing practices, as “a strategic retreat in the face of the delta variant.” Rather than framing …
A Breast Cancer Experience Re-narrated
Narrative trajectories of disaster response
While COVID-19 brings unprecedented challenges to the US healthcare system, understanding narratives of historical disasters illuminates ethical complexities shared with COVID-19. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina revealed a lack of disaster preparation and protocol, not dissimilar to the challenges faced by COVID-19 healthcare workers. A case study of Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina reported by journalist-MD Sheri Fink reveals unique ethical…
I Lost My Body Graphic Narratives in Medicine
Perceptions of child abuse
Japan passed its Child Abuse Prevention Act on 20 November 2000. In these early years following the passage of this Act, it is especially important to attempt to define what constitutes child abuse. Definitions and practical responses may be coloured by perceptions of service providers, and since professional culture is believed to influence individuals, this study compared the perceptions of (a) social workers, (b) physicians, (c) lawyers, and (…
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Perceptions of child abuse
Japan passed its Child Abuse Prevention Act on 20 November 2000. In these early years following the passage of this Act, it is especially important to attempt to define what constitutes child abuse. Definitions and practical responses may be coloured by perceptions of service providers, and since professional culture is believed to influence individuals, this study compared the perceptions of (a) social workers, (b) physicians, (c) lawyers, and (…
Commentary on “Caged Bird”
Military metaphors and pandemic propaganda
Dr Caitríona L Cox’s recent article expounds the far-reaching implications of the ‘Healthcare Hero’ metaphor. She presents a detailed overview of heroism in the context of clinical care, revealing that healthcare workers, when portrayed as heroes, face challenges in reconciling unreasonable expectations of personal sacrifice without reciprocity or ample structural support from institutions and the general public. We use narrative medicine, a fiel…
Your Patriotism Will Not Protect You
Your Patriotism Will Not Protect You: Anti-Masking Movements and the “War on Terror” Yoshiko Iwai (bio), Zahra Khan (bio), and Sayantani DasGupta (bio) “The war has changed,” declared an internal Center for Disease Control (CDC) document cited in The Washington Post on July 29, 2021.1 The Post article describes the CDC’s new guidance, including mask-wearing practices, as “a strategic retreat in the face of the delta variant.” Rather than framing …
A Breast Cancer Experience Re-narrated
Narrative trajectories of disaster response
While COVID-19 brings unprecedented challenges to the US healthcare system, understanding narratives of historical disasters illuminates ethical complexities shared with COVID-19. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina revealed a lack of disaster preparation and protocol, not dissimilar to the challenges faced by COVID-19 healthcare workers. A case study of Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina reported by journalist-MD Sheri Fink reveals unique ethical…
I Lost My Body Graphic Narratives in Medicine
Narrative Humility and Parasite, directed by Bong Joon Ho, 2019
Online Medical School
My clinical research mentor is a breast surgeon, a researcher, a teacher, and mother to 2. As a first-year medical student during the COVID-19 pandemic, connecting with my mentor is often the most exciting part of my day. She is the closest I get to any surgeon, the closest I feel to any operating room. Our meetings about manuscripts and data are one of the few things in my slew of Zoom lectures that feels “medical”—for the good of something larg…
Abolitionist Reimaginings of Health
In 2020, the authors of this article published "Abolition Medicine" as one contribution to international abolitionist conversations responding to widespread anti-Black police violence and inequity laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past year, there has been a surge of efforts to abolish deeply embedded patterns of race-based oppression in policing and incarceration in the United States. In this essay, the authors continue to explore how…
Death in Prison
Medicine (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (4 works)