Protean nature of mass sociogenic illness

Bartholomew, Robert E.; Wessely, Simon

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“…146,147 More commonly known as collective delusion, it has a storied history in human culture. 148,149 In essence, when a social group perceives an external threat, it may in turn misperceive common phenomena as suddenly threatening, resulting in false attributions and irrational decisions.…”

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The Vexing Problem of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Observations on Pathophysiology, Public Policy, and Clinical Science

Kallet

2015

Respir Care

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SummaryVentilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is an acquired infection related primarily to the consequences of prolonged endotracheal intubation. It is considered the most important infectious challenge in the critical care setting. Preventable complications of hospital care are considered an important source of wasted health-care costs believed to consume up to 47% of annual expenditures in the United States. Whether VAP is preventable has become a highly contentious debate since public reporting commenced a decade ago. This selective review focuses on specific aspects of this debate, including the inherent vagaries in the diagnosis of VAP and the marked disparities between VAP rates based on clinical diagnosis versus surveillance data. Also discussed is how this debate has impacted public policy, leading to the new paradigm of ventilator-associated events. The limited ability of artificial airways to prevent microaspiration and biofilm build-up, as well as non-modifiable conditions increasing the risk of VAP, is described in detail. In addition, the origins of the mistaken but widely embraced notion that zero VAP is a realistic achievement are examined.

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The Vexing Problem of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Observations on Pathophysiology, Public Policy, and Clinical Science

Kallet

2015

Respir Care

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“…These bouts of dance, triggered by cultural conditions, became a means of catharsis set against a bleak social backdrop (Donaldson, Cavanaugh, & Rankin, 1997). Further, fears of industrial accidents and terrorist attacks have generated various outbreaks of hysteria throughout the, 20th and 21st centuries, including clusters of "hysterical" episodes following the, 1995 Japanese subway gas attacks (Bartholomew & Wessely, 2002). In short, nearly anything has the potential to create a fear of disease contagion, as the hypervigilance over "terrorist threats" has thrown the U.S. into a permanent state of anxiety.…”

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Women’s Studies as Virus: Institutional Feminism, Affect, and the Projection of Danger.

Fahs

Karger

2016

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<p>Because women’s studies radically challenges social hierarchies and lacks a unified identity and canon of thought, it often negotiates a precarious position within the modern corporatized university. At the same time, women’s studies offers—by virtue of its interdisciplinary, critical, and “infectious” structure—cutting-edge perspectives and goals that set it apart from more traditional fields. This paper theorizes that one future pedagogical priority of women’s studies is to train students not only to master a body of knowledge but also to serve as symbolic “viruses” that infect, unsettle, and disrupt traditional and entrenched fields. In this essay, we first posit how the metaphor of the virus in part exemplifies an ideal feminist pedagogy, and we then investigate how both women’s studies <em>and </em>the spread of actual viruses (e.g., Ebola, HIV) produce similar kinds of emotional responses in others. By looking at triviality, mockery, panic, and anger that women’s studies as a field elicits, we conclude by outlining the stakes of framing women’s studies as an infectious, insurrectional, and potentially dangerous, field of study. In doing so, we frame two new priorities for women’s studies—training male students as viruses and embracing “negative” stereotypes of feminist professors—as important future directions for the potentially liberatory aspects of the field.</p>

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“…Ici, les mécanismes empathiques viennent rationaliser une situation autrement insupportable. Plus spectaculaires encore sont les cas d'hystérie collective, où des foules entières partagent soudainement les mêmes symptômes physiques ou une même croyance délirante [128]. Dans un exemple souvent rapporté, une épidémie de rire s'est répandue sur plusieurs villages d'Afrique centrale pendant plusieurs semaines, sans qu'on ait pu trouver d'autre explication que celle d'une irrationnelle propagation d'un sentiment euphorique sans cause objective [129].…”

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Vers une neuropsychologie sociale. Intégrer l'empathie, l'effet caméléon et la contagion émotionnelle dans la recherche et la clinique neurologique

Diéguez¹

2005

Swiss Arch Neurol Psychiatr

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Protean nature of mass sociogenic illness

Abstract: A broad understanding of the history of mass sociogenic illness and a knowledge of episode characteristics are useful in the more rapid recognition and treatment of outbreaks.

Cited by 142 publications

References 57 publications

The Vexing Problem of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Observations on Pathophysiology, Public Policy, and Clinical Science

The Vexing Problem of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Observations on Pathophysiology, Public Policy, and Clinical Science

Women’s Studies as Virus: Institutional Feminism, Affect, and the Projection of Danger.

Vers une neuropsychologie sociale. Intégrer l'empathie, l'effet caméléon et la contagion émotionnelle dans la recherche et la clinique neurologique

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