Jo Alyson Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919571 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jo Alyson Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jo Alyson |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Joseph's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Improving hospital substance use care from the ground up and from the outside in
Despite a lack of institutional policies or buy-in from senior leadership, harm reduction measures can be implemented in hospitals from the bottom-up and the outside-in-by healthcare providers organizing, leveraging existing community resources, and listening to people who use drugs. Clinicians at other hospitals could model our collaborative approach to improve care and push their health systems towards institutional change
Narrative Worlds and the Textures of Time
In Memoriam
Reoccupy Earth
David Wood. Reoccupy Earth: Notes toward an Other Beginning. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. 260 pp.“Philosophy is the enemy of habit” (7), states David Wood in the introductory chapter to the intriguingly titled Reoccupy Earth: Notes toward an Other Beginning. Wood, who presented the Founder’s Lecture at the 2019 ISST conference in Los Angeles, regards habit as the driving force – or “streetcar,” to use his term – behind humanity’s ina…
Ted Chiang's Time-Travel Narratives
Ted Chiang's sf narratives—"thought experiments," in his words—are written in a variety of genres and cover a variety of ideas, including considerations of temporal issues such as time travel. Here I examine three of these time-travel thought experiments: "Story of Your Life" (1998), "What's Expected of Us" (2005), and "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" (2007). As I argue, Chiang implicitly predicates each narrative on the block universe the…
Dying Ice
Exhalation
A Temporary Future
Since his novel ghostwritten debuted in 1999, David Mitchell has produced some of the most innovative, genre-bending, and generally mind-bending fiction in contemporary literature. His increasing s
From Time's Boomerang to Pointillist Mosaic
In a Wall Street Journal article appearing prior to the U.S. premiere of the film Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell addresses the challenges of turning his complex novel into a film. Revealing that he considered the novel’s “there-and-back” structure as “unfilmable,” he comments favorably on the new structure devised by the screenwriters/directors Lana and Andy Wachowski (The Matrix trilogy, V for Vendetta) and Tom Tykwer (Run, Lola, Run; Heaven): “It …
Time
This thirteenth volume in the interdisciplinary Study of Time series explores the way in which limits and constraints impact upon our understanding of time.
Adult protection in mental health and inpatient settings
Although there has been a commitment to develop a policy framework to support vulnerable adults at risk of abuse, there remains concern around its lack of use within National Health Service inpatient settings and mental health services in particular. A gap between policy and practice appears to have developed, which leaves inpatients vulnerable to inadequate responses to allegations of adult abuse. This article will provide a critical overview of…
Gendering the Robot
In fictional texts, the issue of artificial intelligence has brought to the fore the question of human consciousness. Androids, cyborgs, and robots prompt us to ask whether machines could manifest consciousness and whether we could in fact be replaced by our creations. At the same time, they force us to consider whether we are ourselves programmed—products of cultural forces, manifestations of the discourse that inscribes us. Like much of his fic…
From Time's Boomerang to Pointillist Mosaic
In a Wall Street Journal article appearing prior to the U.S. premiere of the film Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell addresses the challenges of turning his complex novel into a film. Revealing that he considered the novel’s “there-and-back” structure as “unfilmable,” he comments favorably on the new structure devised by the screenwriters/directors Lana and Andy Wachowski (The Matrix trilogy, V for Vendetta) and Tom Tykwer (Run, Lola, Run; Heaven): “It …
Adult protection in mental health and inpatient settings
Although there has been a commitment to develop a policy framework to support vulnerable adults at risk of abuse, there remains concern around its lack of use within National Health Service inpatient settings and mental health services in particular. A gap between policy and practice appears to have developed, which leaves inpatients vulnerable to inadequate responses to allegations of adult abuse. This article will provide a critical overview of…
Gendering the Robot
In fictional texts, the issue of artificial intelligence has brought to the fore the question of human consciousness. Androids, cyborgs, and robots prompt us to ask whether machines could manifest consciousness and whether we could in fact be replaced by our creations. At the same time, they force us to consider whether we are ourselves programmed—products of cultural forces, manifestations of the discourse that inscribes us. Like much of his fic…
Adult protection in mental health and inpatient settings
Although there has been a commitment to develop a policy framework to support vulnerable adults at risk of abuse, there remains concern around its lack of use within National Health Service inpatient settings and mental health services in particular. A gap between policy and practice appears to have developed, which leaves inpatients vulnerable to inadequate responses to allegations of adult abuse. This article will provide a critical overview of…
Time
This thirteenth volume in the interdisciplinary Study of Time series explores the way in which limits and constraints impact upon our understanding of time.
From Time's Boomerang to Pointillist Mosaic
In a Wall Street Journal article appearing prior to the U.S. premiere of the film Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell addresses the challenges of turning his complex novel into a film. Revealing that he considered the novel’s “there-and-back” structure as “unfilmable,” he comments favorably on the new structure devised by the screenwriters/directors Lana and Andy Wachowski (The Matrix trilogy, V for Vendetta) and Tom Tykwer (Run, Lola, Run; Heaven): “It …
A Temporary Future
Since his novel ghostwritten debuted in 1999, David Mitchell has produced some of the most innovative, genre-bending, and generally mind-bending fiction in contemporary literature. His increasing s
Dying Ice
Exhalation
Reoccupy Earth
David Wood. Reoccupy Earth: Notes toward an Other Beginning. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019. 260 pp.“Philosophy is the enemy of habit” (7), states David Wood in the introductory chapter to the intriguingly titled Reoccupy Earth: Notes toward an Other Beginning. Wood, who presented the Founder’s Lecture at the 2019 ISST conference in Los Angeles, regards habit as the driving force – or “streetcar,” to use his term – behind humanity’s ina…
Ted Chiang's Time-Travel Narratives
Ted Chiang's sf narratives—"thought experiments," in his words—are written in a variety of genres and cover a variety of ideas, including considerations of temporal issues such as time travel. Here I examine three of these time-travel thought experiments: "Story of Your Life" (1998), "What's Expected of Us" (2005), and "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" (2007). As I argue, Chiang implicitly predicates each narrative on the block universe the…
Narrative Worlds and the Textures of Time
In Memoriam
Improving hospital substance use care from the ground up and from the outside in
Despite a lack of institutional policies or buy-in from senior leadership, harm reduction measures can be implemented in hospitals from the bottom-up and the outside-in-by healthcare providers organizing, leveraging existing community resources, and listening to people who use drugs. Clinicians at other hospitals could model our collaborative approach to improve care and push their health systems towards institutional change
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