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The Relevance of Apology to Reparations for Historical Injustice
ABSTRACT This article explains the centrality of apology to an adequate account of reparations. I look in depth at what goes on in apology. As I have previously argued, apology is an expressive action through which we seek to mark adequately the significance of our own wrongdoing. I claim that apology so understood is not merely ornamental.
Christopher Bennett
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Effective Altruism and Care Ethics
ABSTRACT Effective altruism (EA) has received some of its most vocal criticisms from supporters of care ethics. In this article I take a comparative approach to determine whether a compelling critique of EA can emerge from care ethics at the ethical level, and more generally how much common ground can be found between the two.
Antonin Broi
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Understanding Autistic Young Adults' Perceptions and Experiences of Traumatic and Stressful Events
ABSTRACT Objectives The aim of this study was to explore how young autistic adults experience and respond to stressful life events, and the relationship between autistic characteristics and symptoms of stress associated with these events. Methods Using an exploratory sequential mixed‐methods approach, an online qualitative survey was first administered
Alliyza Lim, Robyn L. Young
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Background Illness is the leading cause (44%) of poverty in China. Since 2016, The health poverty alleviation project, an integral component of the Targeted Poverty Alleviation in China, was implemented in 2016 to strengthen financial risk protection ...
Chu Chen, Jay Pan
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Are health care payments in Albania catastrophic? Evidence form ALSMS 2002, 2005 and 2008 [PDF]
The absent or poorly functioning risk pooling mechanisms and high amounts of out-of-pocket payments for health care expose households to financial risks associated with major illnesses or accidents. The aim of this paper is to analyse the extent to which
Tomini, Sonila, Packard, Truman G.
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Abstract Background Research indicates dissociative experiences (DE) are prevalent in adolescents. However, the exact phenomenology and underlying mechanisms of dissociation in adolescence have yet to be clarified. The current study explores the presentation of, and possible psychological factors maintaining, dissociation in this population.
Emma Černis +4 more
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Health Care Expenditure of Rural Households in Pondicherry, India
Background: Shortcomings in healthcare delivery has led people to spend a substantial proportion of their incomes on medical treatment. World Health Organization (2005) estimates reveal that every year 25 million households are forced into poverty by ...
Poornima Varadarajan +2 more
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Mental Illness is as Catastrophic as Physical Illness, If Not More!
As per the data released by the Mental Health Survey (NMHS) 2015-16, 10.6% (1) of the adults in India have something or other clinical mental illness, and many more suffer silently with subclinical symptoms. In India, the contribution of mental illness to disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) in the year 2017 was 4.7% with an uprise of 88% from 2.5 ...
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Abstract Background Future time perspective dimensions have been linked to various mental illnesses. Given the tendency for mental illnesses to co‐occur, it is necessary to disentangle associations between future‐oriented constructs and shared versus symptom‐domain‐specific psychopathology.
Yi Yang +6 more
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Numb chin: A simple sign of a catastrophic illness
The sensory neuropathy of the mental nerve (Numb Chin Syndrome-NCS) is a rare neurological condition which is often associated with malignancy, as a sentinel clinical presentation. The most common primary tumours related to it are lymphoma and breast cancer.
Catarina R. Oliveira +8 more
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