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The Brightest Physician in the Room: AI, Professional Recognition, and the Experience of Knowing

This essay explores how generative AI disrupts the traditional link between visible clinical performance and professional recognition by enabling physicians to rapidly acquire expertise without the accompanying years of experiential formation, thereby challenging colleagues and the physicians themselves to evaluate the depth and durability of understanding through long-term adaptation rather than isolated successful episodes.

andrea mangiameli2026-09-02
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Thinking with Beauvoir about Objectification in Childbirth

This paper utilizes Simone de Beauvoir's nuanced conceptualizations of objectification to distinguish between the morally neutral, practical "thingly objectification" inherent in medical care and the dehumanizing "objectification as othering" that constitutes obstetric violence, while also exploring the potential for self-objectification to be either oppressive or empowering in the context of childbirth.

Sara Cohen Shabot2026-09-02
📄 social science

Knowing what AI literacy is, but not yet how to teach it: A rapid review of teachers’ professional development needs and effective principles in higher education

This rapid review of 16 studies on higher education teachers' AI literacy professional development identifies five key needs and ten interventions but concludes that while evidence on teachers' needs is emerging rapidly, robust research on effective professional development approaches remains limited.

Hanneke Theelen, Maarten Renkema2026-09-02
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Beyond Permit Acquisition: Multistage Non-Adherence with Building and Zoning Regulations in Gomoa East District of Ghana

This study reveals that owner-occupied housing in Ghana's Gomoa East District suffers from systemic non-adherence to building and zoning regulations across all construction phases, with over 97% of homeowners failing to meet basic compliance standards, thereby highlighting an urgent need for sustained post-occupancy enforcement beyond mere permit acquisition.

Eunice Asomaniwaa, Priscilla Yaaba-Adjei, Ophelia Quartey2026-09-02
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How is Defending Marx Possible? — From the Perspective of Althusser’s De‑Hegelian Interpretation

This paper argues that Althusser's "de-Hegelianized" interpretation of Marxism, which critiques historicism and redefines dialectics to sever the Marx-Hegel connection, fundamentally transformed Marxist exegesis by shifting from subjectivist tendencies to a structuralist paradigm that restores the unity of theory and practice through the lens of class struggle.

Linhua Wang2026-09-02
📄 social science

Navigating Platform Power between Control and Creativity: Agency, Grassroots Innovation and Digital Cultural Production in China’s We-Media Creator Economy

Drawing on expert interviews and a case study of the prominent outlet Yitiao, this paper argues that China's we-media creators actively exercise agency through grassroots innovations, diverse monetization strategies, and community building to forge independent cultural production paradigms within the constraints of platform controls and state regulation.

Bei Wang2026-09-01
📄 social science

The Politics of Evidence Use: Trust and Knowledge Hierarchies

This study reveals that evidence acceptance and use are fundamentally shaped by power dynamics, institutional reputation, and epistemic hierarchies rather than objective truth, with a survey of 242 stakeholders highlighting a pervasive bias toward Global North sources and underscoring the urgent need for more equitable, inclusive evidence ecosystems that recognize diverse knowledge systems.

Ernest Alang Wung, Gloria Akah Ndum Okwen, Ntam Damaris Maih, Andong Marian Engubia, Mark Tata Kelese, Kinlabel Okwen Te (…)2026-09-01