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Rights of nature, an ornamental legal framework: water extractivism and backbone rivers with rights in Colombia. [PDF]

J Peasant Stud
González-Serrano MX.
europepmc   +1 more source

The psychiatric fix

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
wiley   +1 more source

“Why can't they put us to sleep if we are suffering?”: La Nada and the desire for euthanasia among institutionalized older adults in Peru

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
wiley   +1 more source

Conscientious Objection in Healthcare: The Requirement of Justification, The Moral Threshold, and Military Refusals. [PDF]

J Relig Ethics
Żuradzki T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Rethinking validity in medical education: A Māori‐centred framework 100 years on

Medical Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Truman Lee Kelley helped reorient educational assessment towards validity, with contemporary validity theories positioning validity in the interpretations and decisions made from assessment scores. Despite these advances, Indigenous principles remain largely absent from contemporary validity theory in health professions education ...
Fran Kewene, Rochelle Ellison‐Lupena, Gloria Fraser, Vicky Shaw, Aliitasi Su'a‐Tavila   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The newly enacted Italian surrogacy law: Effects on reproductive tourism. [PDF]

J Assist Reprod Genet
Marinelli S, Gullo G, Circosta F, Zaami S, Krysiak R, Vergallo GM.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Why Do Voters Vote for ‘the Other Side’? Instrumental and Expressive Motives for Cross‐Ethnolinguistic Voting in Brussels

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While electoral support in deeply divided societies is expected to follow segmental lines, parties often attract substantial backing from outside their core constituencies. This article examines why voters in Belgium's Brussels‐Capital Region—a consociational system designed to enable the peaceful cohabitation of the French and Dutch language ...
Benjamin Blanckaert, Silvia Erzeel, Didier Caluwaerts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source