A new book examines the complex relationship between the mind of someone with dementia and the mind of the person caring for the
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/travelers-to-unimaginable-lands
Needle Points:
Why so many are hesitant to get the COVID vaccines, and what we can do about it.LINK: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/needle-points-vaccinations-chapter-four
Vaccination has saved millions of lives, and is based on a series of brilliant observations, spelled out here. So, how is it, in the midst of a pandemic, that many people who often accept vaccination for other conditions, are reluctant to take COVID vaccines? This is Tablet’s exploration into the sources and nature of COVID vaccine hesitancy, how our mental and brain circuitry responses to contagion almost guarantee that our discussions of vaccines become emotionally radioactive, for both sides of the debate, and divide us, and how to do better.
The Tablet articles are here.
Journal of a Plague is a new column, by Dr. Norman Doidge, that aims to help readers to stand back from, reflect on, and make sense of the pandemic, both in terms of how it is transforming life around us, and how it is affecting our individual psyches—the plague without, and the plague within. Here is the first article.