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Unmarked Emotional States and the Affective Anchoring of Continuity

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Narratives around emotions often foreground remarkable episodes that interrupt situations, producing a “rollercoaster” image of emotional life that leaves its stability underdescribed. To analyze the emotional dimension of social continuity, this article theorizes unmarked emotional states (UES): culturally default, interactionally unobtrusive
Lorenzo Sabetta
wiley   +1 more source

The Complex Dynamics of Healthism in Birth Cohort Studies: Comparative Perspectives From the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Brazil and Portugal

open access: yesSociology of Health &Illness, Volume 48, Issue 7, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Longitudinal birth cohort studies are an under‐examined context for considering the dynamics of healthism. This article presents a comparative perspective from the ‘Biosocial Lives of Birth Cohorts’ study, which takes birth cohorts as an ethnographic object of knowledge‐making, social practice and participation in the Netherlands, Brazil ...
Sahra Gibbon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Mental Disorders as Brain Diseases": Bioethical, Cultural, and Social Implications

open access: yesRevista de Bioética y Derecho
Background: Advances in modern neuroscience have led to a transformation in the understanding of mental disorders, which are now being reinterpreted as "brain diseases." Objective: To analyze the social, cultural, and bioethical implications of the shift
Lucas Franca Garcia   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Work‐Influenced Circadian Disruption Connected to Disease Risk but Not Microbiomes in a Cohort of Philadelphia Nurses

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Human Biology, Volume 38, Issue 8, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Objectives Circadian rhythms influence activity cycles in humans, and circadian rhythm disruption (CRD) can negatively impact cardiometabolic disease risk and microbiome composition. This study documented CRD in a sample of nurses in Philadelphia, examining connections between CRD, disease risk, and work environment factors, proposing the ...
Clare Super   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Food Wasting Behavior: The Role of Organic Food Consumption and Environmental Literacy

open access: yesFood Science &Nutrition, Volume 14, Issue 8, August 2026.
Among 1025 adults, organic food consumption was associated with both positive waste‐reduction practices (buying as needed and planning shopping) and a greater likelihood of discarding unpalatable foods, suggesting a potential green licensing effect.
Sena Dilşad Akçakaya   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Examining stressful life experiences as risk factors for self‐injurious behaviors as a function of sexual minority status in adults

open access: yesJournal of Traumatic Stress, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 689-701, August 2026.
Abstract Self‐injurious behaviors (SIBs) represent a major public health concern in the United States. Although sexual minority individuals experience disproportionately high rates of SIBs, research identifying population‐specific risk factors remains limited. This study examined how stressful experiences common among sexual minority (SM) adults relate
Samantha M. Haas, Naomi Sadeh
wiley   +1 more source

Dialectics of the Biosocial

open access: yesNew Proposals, 2022
‘Transhumanism’ is the name that has been adopted by a cultural and philosophical movement, a broad coalition of those concerned with the question of enhancing humanity through emergent and innovative bio- and information technologies. As such, it would appear to have little in common with the political programme of Marxism, not least because of a ...
openaire   +1 more source

Speech and Language Markers of Bipolar Disorder: Challenges and Opportunities

open access: yesBipolar Disorders, Volume 28, Issue 5, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Clinicians aspire to predict the emergence of Bipolar Disorder (BD) in a timely manner. To accomplish this, markers reflecting mental states that can be gathered non‐invasively and at large scale are needed. Here, we systematically evaluate evidence relating speech‐based markers to mood states in BD.
Farida Zaher   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

“An Injurious and Utterly Unfit Environment”: A Case Study Comparing Dental Evidence of Childhood Stress in Nineteenth Century Working‐Class Peoples From British and Colonial New Zealand Contexts

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 190, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Objectives During the nineteenth century, the health and living conditions of many working‐class European peoples declined in association with growing industrialization and urbanization. Emigration to British colonies grew as people sought to escape such hardships.
Lucy A. Kavale‐Henderson   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diversity Patterns of Domestic Herbivore Viruses in China Reveal Transmission Dynamics with Disease Management Implications

open access: yesAdvanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 32, 9 June 2026.
This study performs pan‐viromic profiling of 14,529 samples from 5,710 domestic herbivores across five Chinese provinces, establishing the DhCN‐Virome (1,085,360 viral metagenomes). It reveals species/sample‐specific viromic signatures and cross‐species transmission dynamics, aiding unified disease control.
Yue Sun   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

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