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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
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What Role Does Medical Anthropology Play in Medical Education? A Scoping Review

Societies
Background: The medical humanities (MH) are important in medical education, and one of the most relevant is medical anthropology. This discipline constitutes the bridge between the biomedical world and the human sciences because it can detect social ...
Davide Costa, Raffaele Serra
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Critical medical anthropology as a roadmap

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2021
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Bayla Ostrach
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Transformations et perspectives de l’anthropologie de la santé : un regard épistémologique

Anthropologie & Santé, 2010
Commenting on the new objects and the perspectives opened to the anthropology of health, the author analyses the historical context of the terminology shift.
Anne Marie Moulin
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A Systematic Review of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Epigenetic Age Acceleration in Later Adult Life Measured With Second and Third‐Generation Epigenetic Clocks

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examined the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and epigenetic age acceleration (EAA) in adulthood as measured by second and third generation epigenetic clocks by performing a systematic review of the literature. The electronic databases MEDLINE and EMBASE were searched on 17 July 2023.
Matthew Green, Laura Horsfall, Azam Saied   +2 more
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“We Don't Have to Look Very Far to See Who’s Being Maimed and Injured”

Svetovi
Susan Levine’s work is positioned at the intersection of medical, political, and visual anthropology. She is the convenor of the Health Humanities and the Arts interdisciplinary master’s program at the University of Cape Town.
Nežka Struc, Susan Levine
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Molecular Profiling of Genes Associated With Methylphenidate Pathway Therapy and Discovery of New Variants in Amazonian Amerindian Populations

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), methylphenidate is one of the most widely used drugs, in which patient response significantly impacts prognosis. This study aimed to characterize the molecular profile of 10 genes associated with methylphenidate therapy.
Aline Pasquini Santos, Tatiane Carinta de Souza, Kaio Evandro Cardoso Aguiar, Ana Caroline Alves da Costa, Natasha Monte, Juliana Carla Gomes Rodrigues, Giovanna Gilioli da Costa Nunes, Rita de Cássia Calderaro Coelho, Ândrea Ribeiro‐dos‐Santos, André Maurício Ribeiro dos Santos, Sandro José de Souza, Sidney Emanuel Batista dos Santos, Rommel Mario Rodriguez Burbano, Marianne Rodrigues Fernandes, Ney Pereira Carneiro dos Santos   +14 more
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Society of Medical Anthropology in Aotearoa

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2021
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Nayantara Sheoran Appleton
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Rüdin's Unpublished Family Study From the Early 1920s: “On the Inheritance of Manic‐Depressive Insanity”

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ernst Rüdin, an important and controversial figure in the history of psychiatric genetics, published only one major empirical study on siblings of dementia praecox (DP) probands in 1916. He conducted a parallel study of siblings of probands with manic‐depressive insanity (MDI), but the resulting monograph, written in the early 1920s, was left ...
Kenneth S. Kendler, Astrid Klee
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Critical Medical Anthropology in Midwifery Research

Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 2016
In this article, we discuss the use of critical medical anthropology (CMA) as a theoretical framework for research in the maternity care setting. With reference to the doctoral research of the first author, we argue for the relevance of using CMA for ...
Elizabeth C. Newnham, Jan I. Pincombe, Lois V. McKellar   +2 more
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