Devora Shapiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 8676120 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Devora Shapiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Devora |
| FAMILY NAME | Shapiro |
| SIGNATURE | SHAPIRO D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4848-6639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Medical gaslighting as a mechanism for medical trauma
Being dismissed or disparaged by medical professionals can be shocking and demoralizing for patients, leading to unnecessary harms (e.g., avoidance of medical treatment; depression; shame). This difficulty is further compounded when patients are also the target of wide-ranging stigmatization due to the nature of the medical and behavioral diagnoses they carry, and/or the social identities attributed to them by medical providers. Incorporating bot…
Another Defense of Abortion
In 1971, two years before Roe v. Wade affirmed federal protection for abortion, Judith Jarvis Thomson attempted to demonstrate the wrongs of forced gestation through analogy: you awake to find that the world's most esteemed violinist is wholly, physically dependent on you for life support. Here, the authors suggest that Thomson's intuition, that there is a relevant similarity between providing living kidney support and forced gestation, is realiz…
Experiential knowledge in clinical medicine
Should Pregnancy Be Considered a (Temporary) Disability
To claim a disability is not something one ought to do lightly. Pregnancy, however, presents a very difficult and interesting case. Pain, discomfort, and inconvenience are often daily aspects of pregnancy, and pregnancy itself can cause physical, as well as social, impediments that substantially interfere with one's day-to-day work and life. The kind of “pregnancy-related disability” that is built into current laws falls short of addressing the r…
Specifying dysfunctional mismatches between different control dimensions
Although the dominant paradigm in psychology currently suggests that having control is positive, there is a small literature suggesting that having or seeking control can be negative. In this article we develop a framework for specifying why and when control results in dysfunction. These conditions involve a mismatch between control dimensions of environmental affordances and personal variables of behavioural competencies, control cognitions, and…
Specifying dysfunctional mismatches between different control dimensions
Although the dominant paradigm in psychology currently suggests that having control is positive, there is a small literature suggesting that having or seeking control can be negative. In this article we develop a framework for specifying why and when control results in dysfunction. These conditions involve a mismatch between control dimensions of environmental affordances and personal variables of behavioural competencies, control cognitions, and…
Specifying dysfunctional mismatches between different control dimensions
Although the dominant paradigm in psychology currently suggests that having control is positive, there is a small literature suggesting that having or seeking control can be negative. In this article we develop a framework for specifying why and when control results in dysfunction. These conditions involve a mismatch between control dimensions of environmental affordances and personal variables of behavioural competencies, control cognitions, and…
Should Pregnancy Be Considered a (Temporary) Disability
To claim a disability is not something one ought to do lightly. Pregnancy, however, presents a very difficult and interesting case. Pain, discomfort, and inconvenience are often daily aspects of pregnancy, and pregnancy itself can cause physical, as well as social, impediments that substantially interfere with one's day-to-day work and life. The kind of “pregnancy-related disability” that is built into current laws falls short of addressing the r…
Experiential knowledge in clinical medicine
Medical gaslighting as a mechanism for medical trauma
Being dismissed or disparaged by medical professionals can be shocking and demoralizing for patients, leading to unnecessary harms (e.g., avoidance of medical treatment; depression; shame). This difficulty is further compounded when patients are also the target of wide-ranging stigmatization due to the nature of the medical and behavioral diagnoses they carry, and/or the social identities attributed to them by medical providers. Incorporating bot…
Another Defense of Abortion
In 1971, two years before Roe v. Wade affirmed federal protection for abortion, Judith Jarvis Thomson attempted to demonstrate the wrongs of forced gestation through analogy: you awake to find that the world's most esteemed violinist is wholly, physically dependent on you for life support. Here, the authors suggest that Thomson's intuition, that there is a relevant similarity between providing living kidney support and forced gestation, is realiz…
Psychology (5 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Pregnancy (2 works) · Abortion (1 work) · Affordance (1 work) · Alternative medicine (1 work)