{"id":6582,"date":"2016-10-13T14:45:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T13:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=6582"},"modified":"2016-10-21T15:25:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T14:25:40","slug":"anna-katherina-schaffner-in-new-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/10\/13\/anna-katherina-schaffner-in-new-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Katharina Schaffner in New Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/staff\/schaffner.html\">Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner<\/a>, Reader in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/index.html\">Comparative Literature<\/a> and Medical Humanities, has been further interviewed for her work on exhaustion, following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/complit\/news\/index.html?view=6136\">publication of her book <em>Exhaustion: A History<\/em><\/a> (Columbia University Press, 2016) earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p>The new piece is the cover article for this week\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/\">New Scientist<\/a><\/em>, dated 15 October 2016, entitled \u2018Tired All the Time? Why Fatigue Isn\u2019t All About Sleep\u2019 by Emma Young, about the latest scientific research into the causes of fatigue.<\/p>\n<p><em>New Scientist <\/em>is a weekly magazine, established in 1956, to focus on all aspects of scientific research. It currently has over 100,000 readers.<\/p>\n<p>In investigating fatigue, it is important to remember that exhaustion is not a modern phenomenon, as Anna\u2019s work highlights. \u2018Over the centuries, fatigue has been blamed on the alignment of the planets, a lack of godliness and even an unconscious desire to die,\u2019 explains Anna in the article.<\/p>\n<p>The article goes on to explore modern research into fatigue, including epidemiological and neurological investigations.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is widely available in newsagents, and the full article can be accessed with a subscription here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23230950-400-getting-a-fix-on-fatigue\/\">www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23230950-400-getting-a-fix-on-fatigue\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner, Reader in Comparative Literature and Medical Humanities, has been further interviewed for her work on exhaustion, following publication of her book &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/10\/13\/anna-katherina-schaffner-in-new-scientist\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":6583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135858,18583,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6586,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6582\/revisions\/6586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}