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“The thing I’m missing the most is just being around other queer people”: critical analysis of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health of two-spirit, gay, bisexual, and queer men’s communities in Manitoba, Canada [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background The purpose of this community-based study was to create and advance knowledge on the social impacts of COVID-19 on mental health of Two-Spirit, gay, bisexual, and queer (2SGBQ+) cisgender and transgender men in Manitoba, Canada.
Rusty Souleymanov   +2 more
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Geneticization in the genomic era: a scoping review of ethical, clinical, and sociocultural transformations [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
Geneticization is a concept originally introduced by Abby Lippman to critique the growing dominance of genetic explanations in health, identity, and society.
Safa Shaheen, Mohammed Ghaly
doaj   +2 more sources

Balancing solidarity, normality and trust: reasons for (non-)participation in an injectable HIV antiretroviral therapy study in the United Kingdom [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal for Equity in Health
Many new drug trials fail to recruit participants that are representative of the populations they are intended to serve, resulting in research gaps which contribute to health inequalities.
Sara Paparini   +6 more
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Bariatric Biosociality: Pushed Together, Pulled Apart

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2020
This article explores the postoperative experiences of weight loss surgery patients. More specifically, it investigates why bariatric patients seek out and form connection to similarly situated others in online and in-person support forums.
Zoe Meleo-Erwin
exaly   +2 more sources

Parents like me: biosociality and lay expertise in self-help groups of parents of screen-positive newborns

open access: yesNew Genetics and Society, 2018
This study focuses on patterns of communication and interaction for peer support, which develop among parents of screen-positive children in the socio-medical space created by the diagnostic uncertainty of newborn screening, the limitations of ...
Aviad Raz, Stefan Timmermans
exaly   +2 more sources

A Bogotana House of the Spirits: Venezuelan and Colombian HIV/AIDS Biosociality Beyond-the-Living [PDF]

open access: yesMedical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness
Rebecca Irons
exaly   +2 more sources

Social aspects of innovation management in digital sector [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2021
Innovation management in the digital sector requires taking into account the institutional, socio-structural and socio-cultural context. The article discusses the thesis about unevenness of digitalization in different spheres of society and for different
Kolesnichenko Milana, Burova Olga
doaj   +1 more source

Foucault Meets Novel Coronavirus: Biosociality, Excesses of Governmentality and the “Will to Live” of the Pandemicariat

open access: yesFoucault Studies, 2023
This essay situates Foucault`s ideas of ‘biopower’ and ‘governmentality’ within the Indian context of the Covid emergency, analysing how the excesses of ‘biopolitical’ and the authoritarian forms of ‘governmentality’ evoke a radical re-reading of ...
Subhendra Bhowmick, Mursed Alam
doaj   +1 more source

A mediating capacity

open access: yesMedicine Anthropology Theory, 2015
In this article I seek to develop a conceptual framework for anthropological work on ‘the gut’ by bringing together reflections on ethnographic fieldwork on nutrition and well-being in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, with recent advances in the sciences of ...
Thomas Cousins
doaj   +1 more source

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