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AI Workforce Regulation: What Employers Need to Do Now

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By Shruti Arora, Joanna Brooks
| JD Supra
Artificial intelligence is no longer a future concern for employment lawyers and HR teams. It is already embedded in how many organizations recruit, manage and restructure their workforces. Regulators in California and Connecticut are responding with concrete legislative proposals and executive action that would impose new compliance obligations on employers who use these tools.
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California’s March 30th Emergency Contact Deadline and What Employers Must Do ASAP

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By Joanna Brooks, Anna Graves
| JD Supra
Takeaways By March 30, 2026, California employers should have notified current employees of their right to designate an emergency contact who would be notified if the employee is detained or arrested at work. Employers must allow employees hired after March 30, 2026, the opportunity to designate an emergency contact during their onboarding.
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California Moves to Tighten PAGA Oversight

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By Joanna Brooks, JeAnne Reyes
| JD Supra
Proposed regulations by the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency would standardize notices, formalize cure procedures and expand agency review of Private Attorneys General Act settlements. Takeaways First-ever PAGA regulations would standardize notices and tighten pleading requirements by mandating a prescribed form, detailed factual allegations and additional certifications and disclosures.
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Ninth Circuit Rules That Federal Courts May Invalidate Arbitration Agreements Implemented to Subvert an Ongoing Class Action | JD Supra

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By Joanna Brooks, Dustin Chase-Woods
| JD Supra
Takeaways Do not count on mid-litigation arbitration agreements with class action waivers being deemed enforceable for purposes of the ongoing litigation. You should consult with counsel before implementing mid-litigation arbitration agreements with class action waivers. You may want to get class member communications approved by the court before rolling out mid-litigation arbitration agreements with class action waivers.
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Navigating Tip and Overtime Deductions Under the OBBBA: What Employers Need to Know Now | JD Supra

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By Joanna Brooks, Marcus Wu
| JD Supra
[co-author: Michael Garabedian] New federal tip and overtime deductions effective in 2025 require employers to reassess payroll, reporting and compliance practices across jurisdictions. The OBBBA introduces new federal deductions for qualified tips and overtime pay starting in 2025, offering meaningful tax relief for workers and prompting employers to revisit wage and reporting practices.
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Developing a Data Note reporting guideline for qualitative health and social care research datasets (the DeNOTE study): A study protocol

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By Hannah Long Verified, Elaine Toomey, Fiona Stevenson, Joanna Brooks
| medRxiv
The authors have declared no competing interest. We acknowledge funding from the University of Manchester's Research England Enhancing Research Culture fund. I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained.
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Do people with type 2 diabetes find continuous and intermittent low‐energy diets for weight loss and diabetes remission acceptable?

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By Joanna Brooks, Helen Ruane, Sarah McDiarmid, Avni Vyas
| Wiley Online Library Verified
INTRODUCTION Type 2 diabetes (T2D) affects 9% of the global population and presents a significant challenge to healthcare systems.1 Continuous low-energy diets (CLEDs) using a low-energy formula-based total diet replacement (TDR) can be highly effective in achieving large weight loss and remission of T2D.
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Healthcare professionals' experiences of caring for women with false‐positive screening test results in the National Health Service Breast Screening Programme

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By Hannah Long Verified, Joanna Brooks, Anthony Maxwell, Sarah Peters
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1 INTRODUCTION Population-based breast screening programmes aim to reduce breast cancer mortality by identifying cancers at an earlier and more treatable stage.
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General Practitioner Educators on Clinical Debrief: A Qualitative Investigation into the Experience of Teaching Third-Year Medical Students to Care

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By Georgia Evans, Joanna Brooks, Lisa Collins Verified, Rebecca Farrington
| Taylor & Francis Online
Abstract Phenomenon: There is a paucity of research reporting the experiences of general practitioner clinical educators. Providing education for students could lead to better clinical skills and greater job satisfaction for the educator. However, it could also result in increased stress and mental fatigue, adding to what is an already pressured situation in the current primary care climate.
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Three steps to open science for qualitative research in psychology

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By Peter Branney, Joanna Brooks, Laura Kilby, Kristina Newman
| Wiley Online Library Verified
1.1 Implementation considerations As indicated above, the move to contributorship has the potential to benefit all involved in research. Moreover, we suggest there are some benefits specifically for qualitative researchers. Firstly, it ensures that members are recognised for contributions that are impossible to properly recognise when following the authorship model.
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Dear Littler: Do We Need to Make Employee Restrooms Available to Customers? | JD Supra

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By Joanna Brooks
| JD Supra
Dear Littler: Our retail clothing chain has stores in 10 major cities across the country. We recently had an issue in our Seattle, Washington location. A customer claiming to have a medical condition wanted to use our private employee restroom. The store manager did not feel comfortable with this, as the restroom is employee-only near the breakroom.
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Dear Littler: Do We Need to Make Employee Restrooms Available to Customers?

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By Joanna Brooks
| Littler
Dear Littler: Our retail clothing chain has stores in 10 major cities across the country. We recently had an issue in our Seattle, Washington location. A customer claiming to have a medical condition wanted to use our private employee restroom. The store manager did not feel comfortable with this, as the restroom is employee-only near the breakroom.
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Turn a Frame into a Trendy Message Board

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By Joanna Brooks
Hi there! It’s strange times right now, and we’re all trying to find ways to stay busy at home. I’ve always been a huge fan of repurposing things and supplies I already own, and this is a great time to make the best of what you have. Today I’m going to show you how to turn a frame into a trendy message board! You can use any size or shape frame you have, and please use whatever supplies you have at home.
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What do young women below national screening age in England think about cervical cancer and cervical screening? A qualitative study

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By Samantha J Groves, Joanna Brooks, Samantha Groves MSc
| Wiley Online Library Verified
Aims and objectives To explore what women aged below the national screening age in the UK know and think about cervical cancer and cervical screening. Background The efficacy of cervical cancer screening is well established. However, cervical screening attendance in the United Kingdom has decreased, with especially low rates at the first screening opportunity at age 25.
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“When I Heard the Word Palliative”: Obscuring and Clarifying Factors Affecting the Stigma Around Palliative Care Referral in Oncology

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By Taynara Formagini, Claire Poague, Alicia C. O'Neal, Joanna Brooks
| ascopubs.org
Abstract Palliative care (PC) can help patients with cancer manage symptoms and achieve a greater quality of life. However, there are many barriers to patients with cancer receiving referrals to PC, including the stigmatizing association of PC with end of life. This study explores factors that obscure or clarify the stigma around PC referrals and its associations with end of life in cancer care.
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Factors influencing engagement of patients in a novel intervention for CFS/ME: a qualitative study | Primary Health Care Research & Development | Cambridge Core

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By Carolyn Anne Chew-Graham, Joanna Brooks, Alison J. Wearden, Christopher Dowrick
| Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Crossref Citations This article has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by CrossRef. Rosendal, Marianne Blankenstein, Annette H Morriss, Richard Fink, Per Sharpe, Michael and Burton, Christopher 2013. Enhanced care by generalists for functional somatic symptoms and disorders in primary care. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, CrossRef Google Scholar Ree, Eline Harris, Anette Indahl, Aage Tveito, Torill H. and Malterud, Kirsti 2014.
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Mary Astell (1663-1731)

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By Lisa Moore, Joanna Brooks, Caroline Wigginton
| universitypressscholarship.com
DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199743483.003.0008 A political philosopher and religious writer, Mary Astell is known for her advocacy of women’s education. Astell was one of the High Church Anglican women intellectuals living in the Chelsea section of London at the turn of the eighteenth century. She argued that women were better off being governed by just one king rather than by many masters.
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Utah’s New Senator And The Intellectual Decline Of LDS Conservatism

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By Joanna Brooks
| Religion Dispatches Verified
In Sunday’s New York Times, legal scholar Jeffrey Rosen’s profile of newly-elected Utah Senator Mike Lee had the alarmist tone of the newly initiated: Rosen painted Lee as a “radical Constitutionalist” whose views “appear to be inspired” by the writings of Cleon Skousen, a controversial Mormon arch-conservative once little known outside of LDS circles but now made legendary by Glenn Beck.
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Women’s experiences of receiving a diagnosis of premenstrual dysphoric disorder: a qualitative investigation

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By Anja Wittkowski, Joanna Brooks, Paula Briggs, Elizabeth Osborn
| Biomed Central (BMC)
Abstract Background Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is a complex and disabling condition that affects women of reproductive age, characterised by severe physical and psychological symptoms that occur cyclically and remit following the onset of menses. As the psychological nature and consequences of PMDD often seem indistinguishable from symptoms of other mental health difficulties, this condition presents distinct diagnostic challenges for healthcare professionals.
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Easy Paper Chain Octopus Craft

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By Joanna Brooks
| woojr.com
Today I’m sharing how to make this Paper Chain Octopus Craft! This is a perfect addition to an under the sea birthday party, or a classroom unit on ocean animals. It’s super fast to make, so let’s get started! Paper Chain Octopus Craft Supplies: Purple or blue paper. Black scrap paper. White scrap paper. Paper cutter. Scissors. Hot glue gun. Pen. Start by cutting your some of your paper into 6 inch long by 1 inch wide strips. You’ll need 60 strips total.
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"Pardon the Blues Here" by Joanna Brooks

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By Joanna Brooks
| scholarsarchive.byu.edu
Home > INSCAPE > Vol. 12 (1992) > No. 2 Keywords essay, writing, arts and humanities Recommended Citation Brooks, Joanna (1992) "Pardon the Blues Here," Inscape: Vol. 12 : No. 2 , Article 6. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol12/iss2/6
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"When Coyotes Take the Bandstand, the Small Houses Lean" by Joanna Brooks

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By Joanna Brooks
| scholarsarchive.byu.edu
Home > INSCAPE > Vol. 12 (1992) > No. 2 Keywords essay, writing, arts and humanities Recommended Citation Brooks, Joanna (1992) "When Coyotes Take the Bandstand, the Small Houses Lean," Inscape: Vol. 12 : No. 2 , Article 3. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol12/iss2/3
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"During August, We Play Married" by Joanna Brooks

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By Joanna Brooks
| scholarsarchive.byu.edu
Home > INSCAPE > Vol. 13 (1993) > No. 2 Keywords poetry, writing, arts and humanities Recommended Citation Brooks, Joanna (1993) "During August, We Play Married," Inscape: Vol. 13 : No. 2 , Article 9. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol13/iss2/9
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"New Moon, November" by Joanna Brooks

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By Joanna Brooks
| scholarsarchive.byu.edu
Home > INSCAPE > Vol. 13 (1993) > No. 2 Keywords poetry, writing, arts and humanities Recommended Citation Brooks, Joanna (1993) "New Moon, November," Inscape: Vol. 13 : No. 2 , Article 8. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol13/iss2/8
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"Halloran Pass" by Joanna Brooks

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By Joanna Brooks
| scholarsarchive.byu.edu
Home > INSCAPE > Vol. 13 (1993) > No. 1 Keywords poetry, writing, arts and humanities Recommended Citation Brooks, Joanna (1993) "Halloran Pass," Inscape: Vol. 13 : No. 1 , Article 13. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol13/iss1/13
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"To My Mother, Who Doesn't Like Feminists but Loves Me" by Joanna Brooks

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By Joanna Brooks
| scholarsarchive.byu.edu
Home > INSCAPE > Vol. 13 (1993) > No. 1 Keywords poetry, writing, arts and humanities Recommended Citation Brooks, Joanna (1993) "To My Mother, Who Doesn't Like Feminists but Loves Me," Inscape: Vol. 13 : No. 1 , Article 15. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol13/iss1/15
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"Ciao" by Joanna Brooks

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By Joanna Brooks
| scholarsarchive.byu.edu
Home > INSCAPE > Vol. 13 (1993) > No. 1 Keywords fiction, writing, arts and humanities Recommended Citation Brooks, Joanna (1993) "Ciao," Inscape: Vol. 13 : No. 1 , Article 27. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol13/iss1/27
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Rallying Cry From the Place in Between

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By Lori A. Spoozak, Joanna Brooks, Elizabeth Wulff-Burchfield
| ascopubs.org
In the flurry of news about dramatic declines in cancer-related mortality driven by improved treatments in lung cancer and melanoma,1 the conversation conspicuously avoids considering what actually happens to those patients who did not die. There is a popular assumption that they have been rendered disease free. What we are seeing in oncology practice is very different.
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Gay Like Me - Richie Jackson - Hardcover

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By Richie Jackson, Betsy Lerner, Alex Cooper, Joanna Brooks
| HarperCollins Publishers Verified
Chosen by Town & Country as one of the most anticipated books of the year | Named "An LGBTQ Book That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2020" by O: The Oprah Magazine In this poignant and urgent love letter to his son, award-winning Broadway, TV and film producer Richie Jackson reflects on his experiences as a gay man in America and the progress and setbacks of the LGBTQ community over the last 50 years. "My son is kind, responsible, and hardworking. He is ready for college.
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Samson Occom at the Mohegan Sun: Finding history at a New England Indian casino - Commonplace

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By Joanna Brooks
| commonplace.online
I have visited tribal casinos in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, but none of them compare to the Mohegan Sun . . . I. I did not expect to find Samson Occom at the Mohegan Sun Casino–”300,000 square feet of gaming excitement”–in Uncasville, Connecticut. But there he was, an eighteenth-century Mohegan missionary, etched into the wall in one of the casino’s twenty-nine restaurants.
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Romney Betrays Harold Bloom’s Fantasy Mormonism

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By Joanna Brooks, Co-editor
| Religion Dispatches Verified
When Harold Bloom published The American Religion in 1992, I was a college student at Brigham Young University, and I eagerly bought my own copy at the BYU bookstore. I didn’t always recognize the early, gnostic brand of Mormonism Bloom celebrated, but I knew it was important that finally a cultural critic of national standing saw nothing especially shameful or revolting in my religion’s astonishing nineteenth-century rise.
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Document by Document - Commonplace

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By Joanna Brooks
| commonplace.online
“We aim to represent the range of disability history resources by selecting representative artifacts from the genres where disability history is found: veterans’ pension documents, the circus sideshow, moral literature, postcards of institutions, deaf- and polio- and blind-community newspapers and newsletters, service-club ephemera and meeting minutes.” One hundred and seventy-five bunches of asparagus. Sixty-five bunches of radishes. Three varieties of beans. Eleven hundred heads of cabbage.
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The Sound of Violence: Music of King Philip's War and Memories of Settler Colonialism in the American Northeast - Commonplace

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By Joanna Brooks
| commonplace.online
How Philip came to figure in the Grand March involves a story of music’s complex intertwining with memory in colonial contexts. Disease permanently robbed Oliver Shaw of his sight as a youth. But instead of despairing about his damaged eyes, Shaw (1779-1848), who made his adult life on Westminster Street in Providence, Rhode Island, cultivated his ear. He became an esteemed pianist, church organist, and music teacher, as well as a modestly prolific composer of hymns, marches, and waltzes.
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Mental health nurses' understandings and experiences of providing care for the spiritual needs of service users: a qualitative study

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By Ruth E. Elliott, John Wattis, Kathleen Chirema, Joanna Brooks
| Color Research & Application Verified
ORIGINAL ARTICLE Mental health nurses' understandings and experiences of providing care for the spiritual needs of service users: a qualitative study Ruth Elliott Corresponding Author E-mail address: r.h.elliott@hud.ac.uk School of Human and Health Science, University of Huddersfield Corresponding Author Dr Ruth Elliott Senior Lecturer MH Nursing School of Human and Health Science University of Huddersfield Email: r.h.elliott@hud.ac.uk Tel: 01484 471999 Search for more papers by this author...
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The Role of a Symptom Assessment Tool in Shaping Patient-Physician Communication in Palliative Care

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By Joanna Brooks, Claire Poague, Taynara Formagini
| jpsmjournal.com
To view the full text, please login as a subscribed user or purchase a subscription. Click here to view the full text on ScienceDirect. Abstract Context Patients with cancer experience many symptoms that disrupt quality of life, and symptom communication and management can be challenging.
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Service users’ and carers’ experiences of engaging with early intervention services: A meta‐synthesis review

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By Matthew Loughlin, Sandra Bucci, Joanna Brooks, Katherine Berry
| Color Research & Application Verified
The full text of this article hosted at iucr.org is unavailable due to technical difficulties.
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Moving on from early intervention for psychosis services: Service user perspectives on the facilitators and barriers of transition

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By Katherine Berry, Joanna Brooks, Sandra Bucci, Matthew Loughlin
| Color Research & Application Verified
The full text of this article hosted at iucr.org is unavailable due to technical difficulties.
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Does Romney’s Religion Condone Torture? [UPDATED]

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By Joanna Brooks, Co-editor
| Religion Dispatches Verified
Nobody asked Governor Mitt Romney or President Barack Obama about torture during Monday night’s “foreign policy debate”—but someone should have. Because recently disclosed Romney campaign documents are raising new questions about the candidate’s position, and the recent appointment of a Spokane, Washington LDS bishop who in his professional life as a psychologist pioneered so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” after 9/11 has raised new questions about whether Mormonism condones torture.
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Explaining polygamy and its history in the Mormon Church

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By Joanna Brooks
| Salon Verified
The arrest of polygamist leader Lyle Jeffs, evictions of polygamist families and new studies on crippling genetic disorders among small ultra-orthodox or “fundamentalist” Mormon communities in rural Utah have made headlines this summer. This spotlight on polygamy is likely to make the majority of Mormons who are nonfundamentalist uncomfortable.
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Explaining polygamy and its history in the Mormon Church

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By Joanna Brooks
| The Conversation Verified
The arrest of polygamist leader Lyle Jeffs, evictions of polygamist families and new studies on crippling genetic disorders among small ultra-orthodox or “fundamentalist” Mormon communities in rural Utah have made headlines this summer. This spotlight on polygamy is likely to make the majority of Mormons who are nonfundamentalist uncomfortable.
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“Go Make Your Face Known”: Collaborative Working through the Lens of Personal Relationships

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By Nigel King, Alison Bravington, Joanna Brooks, Jane Melvin
| The International Journal of Integrated Care
Research & theory Authors: Nigel King Email Nigel King Alison Bravington Joanna Brooks Jane Melvin David Wilde Background: Collaborative working between professionals is a key component of integrated care. The academic literature on it largely focuses either on integration between health and social care or on the dynamics of power and identity between doctors and nurses.
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RNC Takes America to Church, Mormon Style, as Rank-and-File LDS Step Up

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By Joanna Brooks, Co-editor
| Religion Dispatches Verified
Thursday night, the Republican National Convention took America to church—Mormon style. And Mitt Romney had nothing to do with it. After eighteen months of fastidiously avoiding the issue of religion—a strategy that at times conveyed the unfortunate impression that his Mormonism was something Romney felt he needed to hide—the Romney campaign invited regular rank-and-file Mormons to do the heavy lifting on religion for them.
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Gay Pride Weekend Draws Mormon Allies and Equality Supporters

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By Joanna Brooks, Co-editor
| Religion Dispatches Verified
This weekend, organized contingents of Mormons marched in LGBT pride parades in 8 cities, from New York to Santiago de Chile, marking the high point in an historic season in LDS LGBT history that began with the Mormons Building Bridges Parade in Salt Lake City on June 3. In Seattle, the Mormons for Marriage Equality contingent counted 55 marchers at the beginning of the Pride parade.
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Hostility During Training: Historical Roots of Primary Care Disparagement

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By Joanna Brooks
| Annals of Family Medicine Verified
Abstract PURPOSE The environment during medical school has been shown to dissuade students from choosing primary care careers. The purpose of this study was (1) to explore how long-standing this hostility toward primary care is historically and (2) to understand the mechanisms through which the environment conveys disparagement of primary care to students. METHODS The study is based on a qualitative analysis of 52 primary care physician oral histories.
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The Secret Life of Mormons

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By Joanna Brooks
| AlterNet Verified
“Who do you think you are—to want to be a writer?” These are the words that haunt the young Mormon girl who is the protagonist of Judith Freeman’s new memoir, The Latter Days (Pantheon). Freeman, whose breakout novel The Chinchilla Farm (Norton, 1989) established her as one of the first Mormon writers to gain a national standing in literary fiction, wrote three more novels before turning finally to non-fiction to grapple with her Mormon upbringing.
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The Secret Life of Mormons: As Told by Prodigal Daughter, Novelist Judith Freeman

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By Joanna Brooks
| Religion Dispatches Verified
“Who do you think you are—to want to be a writer?” These are the words that haunt the young Mormon girl who is the protagonist of Judith Freeman’s new memoir, The Latter Days (Pantheon). Freeman, whose breakout novel The Chinchilla Farm (Norton, 1989) established her as one of the first Mormon writers to gain a national standing in literary fiction, wrote three more novels before turning finally to non-fiction to grapple with her Mormon upbringing.
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How Mormon is Mitt Romney? Over 50 Jokes For Trump

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By Joanna Brooks
| Religion Dispatches Verified
Update: Poor Mitt Romney’s just never Mormon enough for an election year. Though Trump retaliated immediately after Mitt Romney called him “a phony, a fraud” earlier this month, Trump took another shot at the former GOP presidential candidate at a rally in Salt Lake City, Utah on Friday, asking the crowd, “Are you sure he’s a Mormon?
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MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Needs to Get a Grip on his Issues with Mormonism

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By Joanna Brooks, Co-editor
| Religion Dispatches Verified
On Wednesday night, MSNBC political talk host Lawrence O’Donnell went off the rails during a segment about Catholic attitudes towards LGBT equality, by concluding his five-minute segment with a diatribe against Mormonism.
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A Story in Which the Gay Mormon Does Not Die

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By Joanna Brooks
| Religion Dispatches Verified
When 15-year-old Alex Cooper came out to her devout Mormon family, they drove her from the family home in a Southern California suburb to an unlicensed in-home treatment program whose proprietors, fellow Mormons, promised they could help Alex change from gay to straight. Her clothes and possessions were taken and she was given a new wardrobe of thrift store castoffs. She had extremely limited contact with her parents and no contact with friends. There was no school except for homestudy.
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LDS Church Labels Same-Sex Spouses “Apostates,” Bars Children From Baptism

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By Joanna Brooks
| Religion Dispatches Verified
A new LDS Church policy barring the children of married gay parents from membership or baptism in the church has sent seismic waves through the Mormon community, leaving many Church members confounded by the Church’s open contradiction with closely held tenets of Christianity, including the New Testament’s declaration of unconditional love for and acceptance of children.
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