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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023 Background Perinatal death has profound psychosocial effects on women and their families. Sociocultural contexts influence the burden, rituals and bereaved’s support. Little is known about cultural beliefs and practices related to perinatal death.
Anna Agnes Ojok Arach +10 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract As a primary source for the early ages, picture books guide preschool children's gender perception through stories and illustrations. However, previous studies have criticised an overall gender inequality in children's picture books. Compared to the increasing attention on gender diversity in the UK picture book industry, there has been little
Yi Li, Melissa Terras, Yongning Li
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Anuac, 2019 In this paper I consider the phenomenon of the “child-witches” in Lubumbashi (Katanga, DRC) as the result of the intertwine of two dynamics: the accusation of children within the sphere of the family and the large number of street children in Congolese ...
Edoardo Quaretta
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The survival of witchcraft prosecutions and witch belief in South West Scotland [PDF]
, 2006 During the era of the Scottish witch-hunts, Dumfries and Galloway was one of the last regions to initiate witch prosecutions, but it was also one of the most reluctant to completely surrender all belief in witches until a comparatively late date.
Andrew Agnew A +4 more
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Perceptions on preeclampsia and eclampsia among senior, older women, in rural Southwestern Uganda
Journal of Global Health Reports, 2021 # Background Eclampsia is among the leading causes of maternal mortality. It is a serious hypertensive complication of pregnancy and increases the risk of cardiovascular disease in later life.
Harriet Nabulo +3 more
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Traditional Methods of Protecting the Infant and Child Illness/Disease Among the Wazigua at Mvomero Ward, Morogoro, Region, Tanzania [PDF]
, 2013 Even though child and infant protection against health problems using various methods is as old as mankind, there is limited literature on traditional methods used to protect infant and child in Tanzania.
Kayombo , E.J.
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'A woman like any other' : female sodomy, hermaphroditism and witchcraft in seventeenth-century Bruges [PDF]
, 2017 This article discusses the official and popular responses to a particular sodomy trial held at Bruges in 1618 during which two women, Mayken and Magdaleene, were accused of several sexual and moral transgressions. The interrogation records of the accused
Roelens, Jonas
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Aspekte van populere opvattinge oor diareesiektes onder Tswanasprekende stedelinge
Curationis, 1989 This article contains a general overview o f cultural perceptions o f diarrhoeal disease amongst infants as expressed by Tswanaspeaking urbanites. Attention is mainly given to the perception o f gastro-enteritis.
J.H. Booyens
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BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background Zambia is experiencing high prevalence of childhood cancer. However, very few children access and complete treatment for cancer. This study aimed to document the challenges for health care providers, parents and patients who face a child hood ...
Mulima Walubita +2 more
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Eighteenth-century Quakerism and the rehabilitation of James Nayler, seventeenth-century radical [PDF]
, 2008 Although the first Quakers aligned with history superfluous tradition, detrimental to true appreciation of the inward voice of God, by the early eighteenth century they had produced their first histories as a defence against Anglican allegations of ...
ERIN BELL, Greenwood, Knott, Mullett
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