Content tagged "mental health"
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The Cultural Life of Suicide: Observing Care and Death at MIT
Drawing on field observations with the student-run texting help line Lean On Me, as well as interviews of students and administrators working in campus mental health organizations, I then explore how mental health organizations approach their work within an environment where suicide is ambient and infrastructural.
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An Evening with Aparna Nancherla
Aparna Nancherla heads to MIT this spring for a moderated discussion on her career and her honesty about her struggles with depression.
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Design for Vulnerable Populations
What can designers do to better connect with the communities and individuals they wish to serve? How can design projects avoid patronizing attitudes and economic colonialization? How can a designer be effective in promoting social change while following their conscience?
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Abandoned Minds: The Escalating Crisis of Geriatric Mental Illness
The medical, social, and political challenges facing patients, researchers, advocates, clinicians and caregivers in the coming decades – and today.
