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Chromosomal Breakage in Fanconi Anemia and Consanguineous Marriages: A Social Dilemma for Developing Countries. [PDF]

open access: yesCureus, 2020
Siddiqui F   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of Inheritance Pattern in Mentally Retarded Children

open access: yesMajallah-i Dānishgāh-i ’Ulūm-i Pizishkī-i Shahīd Ṣadūqī Yazd, 2011
Introduction: Mental retardation is one of the most important problems of general health. The purpose of this study was to evaluate inheritance pattern of mentally retarded patients in Yazd city.
F Behnaz   +3 more
doaj  

The social life of money for children

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Too Young to Wed: the Lives, Rights and Health of Young Married Girls [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Provides data on the rates of child marriage throughout the developing world, and its effect on young girls and on the economy of developing countries.
Anju Malhotra   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

The effect of Consanguineous Marriages on Congenital Malformation

open access: yesJournal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2005
Background: Consanguinity has been a long-standing social habit among some of Iranians. The estimation of consanguinity ratios in different parts of Iran ranged from 30 to 85%.
A Mehrabi Kushki, B Zeyghami
doaj  

Capital and the Family

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are capital and the family interconnected in contemporary capitalism? In this article, we argue that they come together in owning relations. By owning capital across generations, families bridge the temporal gap between the durability of capital and the finite lifespan of private property holders and thus resolve the problem of bona ...
Jens Beckert, Isabell Stamm
wiley   +1 more source

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