The Quest for Normalcy and its Drama in the Doctor-Patient Interaction Michele Battle-Fisher Science & Medicine …I began to realize that although medical labels had the same shiny surface as my childhood labels, with a luster capable of illuminating the darkness of disease, they also had the same sticky underside....
Human Agency and the Social Nodes Michele Battle-Fisher Politics & Economics, Society & Culture According to Anthony Giddens (1979), human agency must include an acting subject that deals with action linearly. In this duality of structure, on the most basic level people make up society but are inherently...
Chronic Illness, Caregiving and the 800-pound Gorilla Network Michele Battle-Fisher Science & Medicine, Society & Culture Private medical issues rarely remain concealed from the public. A “private” medical issue becomes everyone else’s business for a good reason. Health must be modeled as realistically as possible, as a...
The Beauty of Ethereal Social Networks Michele Battle-Fisher Arts & Culture, Sociology A social network is “simply” bound as a set of objects, such as riders of an elevator lift, or even geese that are linked in some meaningful, measurable fashion. A gaggle of geese is a gaggle of geese but...
A Lesson From Mead and Batman in Ethically Dynamic Moral Character Michele Battle-Fisher Arts & Culture Bruce Wayne and his alter ego, Batman, is the epitome of dynamic contradictions of ethos. Not unlike Batman’s character struggles, character is built and questioned constantly, often without a law in sight....
Here is Ex Machina to Your Health Michele Battle-Fisher Science & Medicine Health is a personal narrative. We see ourselves like a history of our life events stored in our bodies. Can Ex Machina, beyond the surface scraping Fitbit savory tidbits, truly grasp what it means to be a...
The Complex Implications of Policy Puffins on the Public’s Welfare Michele Battle-Fisher Politics & Economics At its simplest denominator, a citizen is by principle afforded the right of being included in a group's decisions. But there is a special place for those who serve as policymakers and policy experts. But I...
