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A BIOETHICS APPROACH TO EXAMINING INADEQUATE ACUTE PAIN CONTROL DURING INTRAUTERINE DEVICE INSERTION

Intrauterine device (IUD) insertion procedures can cause pain, where some patients even have an extreme level of pain. This is a health care problem that should prompt further questioning and ethical analysis. While ethics-related concepts have been described in the literature surrounding IUD insertion procedures, there is a shortage of explicit ethical analysis through the use of ethical principles. The purpose of this thesis is to illustrate how bioethics concepts, such as beneficence, nonmaleficence, respect for autonomy, and justice, can serve as a useful lens for examining issues related to pain with IUD insertion procedures. In this analysis, concerns with IUD insertion procedures are grouped and analyzed through the perspective of each ethical principle. Additionally, it is possible to examine how ethical principles conflict with each other within the space of IUD insertions. By assembling a comprehensive review of IUD insertion pain issues through the language of ethics, this thesis brings this reproductive health problem further into the academic bioethics sphere, highlights how the current handling of IUD insertions is ethically problematic, and argues why bioethics should dedicate space and consideration to this topic

Ga(y)zing Backward: Queer Desire in Ovid, Shakespeare, and Scaimma

As Ovidian myth is a central influence on queer stories throughout time, I am interested in how the female/sapphic gaze impacts the retellings of these narratives. In this thesis, I analyze the action of the gaze as an expression of desire and discuss its multiple meanings in both text and performance. Through tracing the gaze within the queer/sapphic narratives of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire, I show that the gaze is an intersecting act through which non-normative desire is conveyed. In constructing the gaze as an ephemeral action of queer desire in practice, I also argue that it maintains a resonance within queer narratives throughout time, creating a historical account of non-normative attraction. Gaze captures both the passion and loss within love through informing the memory of the gazer. In the context of queer temporality, the memory of love transcends the inevitable loss that accompanies queer pasts in its refusal to be limited by straight notions of time. As the gaze operates against the traditional language of courtship, it creates sites of queer cultural memory through which the non-normative attraction is preserved. In tracing Ovidian narrative through its temporal transformation into queer culture, we see how the language of sexuality and desire transitions for the purpose of communicating unconventional acts of desire in coded/obscured ways

Age-Dependent Responses Following Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a growing health concern worldwide that affects a broad range of the population. As TBI is the leading cause of disability and mortality in children, several preclinical models have been developed using rodents at a variety of different ages; however, key brain maturation events are overlooked that leave some age groups more or less vulnerable to injury. Thus, there has been a large emphasis on producing relevant animal models to elucidate molecular pathways that could be of therapeutic potential to help limit neuronal injury and improve behavioral outcome. TBI involves a host of different biochemical events, including disruption of the cerebral vasculature and breakdown of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) that exacerbates secondary injuries. A better understanding of age-related mechanism(s) underlying brain injury will aid in establishing more effective treatment strategies aimed at improving restoration and preventing further neuronal loss. This review looks at studies that focus on modeling the adolescent population and highlights the importance of individualized aged therapeutics to TBI

Everything You Wanted to Know about the Tri-Party Repo Market, but Didn\u27t Know to Ask

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