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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
wiley   +1 more source

Straddling “The Gulf Between Medicine and Law”: Medico‐legal addiction and Japanese psychiatry

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Increasing punitive drug regulations in Japan amplify longstanding tensions within psychiatric practice, pushing psychiatrists to balance clinical obligations with complex socio‐legal demands. This article analyzes how psychiatrists specializing in illicit substance use disorders to navigate escalating criminalization by developing diagnostic ...
Selim Gokce Atici
wiley   +1 more source

NRS-18345 | Minute books [Murrumbidgee District Ambulance Service]

open access: yes
<p>This series comprises twelve bound volumes containing the minutes from the Murrumbidgee District Ambulance Service. <br />Information contained in the minutes include the following: Who was present, President's report, discussion notes ...

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Policing the safety net: Medical and carceral management of violence in a Los Angeles County public hospital

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Medical anthropologists have long shown how hospitals function as spaces of both care and control, yet the entanglement of policing and trauma care remains understudied. This paper offers an ethnographic account of how trauma surgeons in a Los Angeles County hospital navigate the embedded presence of police within their clinical work.
Emily Virginia Jones
wiley   +1 more source

Patient Posture-Adaptive Non-Contact Respiratory Rate Measurement Inside a Moving Ambulance Using RGB and Thermal Cameras. [PDF]

open access: yesDiagnostics (Basel)
Nemoto D   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Urban ants as potential mechanical vectors of pathogenic and antibiotic‐resistant bacteria in a Brazilian hospital

open access: yesMedical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
Nine ant taxa were identified in a Brazilian hospital, with Tapinoma melanocephalum and Dorymyrmex brunneus being the most abundant. Eighty‐five percent of collected ants yielded detectable bacterial growth, including clinically relevant genera such as Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas, Escherichia coli and Pluralibacter.
Luana Biggi Souza   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of the Budget Cycle on Native American Health Outcomes

open access: yesPublic Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract Indian Health Service provides healthcare for 2.5 million Alaskan Natives and Native Americans. However, health disparities between Native Americans and other groups have been widening. One important factor for this trend is funding. In this paper, I document the effect of funding constraints on mortality outcomes using fixed effects models. I
Patrick Carlin
wiley   +1 more source

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