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Patients and consumers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Successive governments of the UK have strongly supported two policies: an NHS free at the point of delivery, and the encouragement of consumer choice.
Downie, R.
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The Ideology of Consumerism in Five Star Billionaire

open access: yesInsaniyat: Journal of Islam and Humanities, 2019
The last decades, people can calculate other people’s worth only through what they are wearing or their appearances. It makes the phenomenon of commodification and consumerism emerges in the society. This phenomenon might not harm the bourgeoisie, but it
Nina Farlina   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building a Sustainable Society: The Necessity to Change the Term 'Consumer'

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, 2017
The profit-seeking system leads to many negative environmental impacts. Within this economic system, consumption reflects an important relationship between humans and nature.
Sabrina Chakori
doaj   +1 more source

Representation of the Ideal Society in Advertisements of the Islamic Republic of Iran Television [PDF]

open access: yesاسلام و مطالعات اجتماعی, 2017
An attempt to describe a desirable and ideal society and ways to achieve it by the mass media is one of their missions. In addition to introducing goods and services, the mass media also illustrates the ideal of human life as an implicit implication.
Mahdi Montazer Ghaem, abbas hoseini
doaj   +1 more source

Older people as users and consumers of health care: A third age rhetoric for a fourth age reality [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
This paper is concerned with the emergence of consumerism as a dominant theme in the culture surrounding the organisation and provision of welfare in contemporary societies.
GILLEARD, C, HIGGS, P
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Living for the weekend: youth identities in northeast England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Consumption and consumerism are now accepted as key contexts for the construction of youth identities in de-industrialized Britain. This article uses empirical evidence from interviews with young people to suggest that claims of `new community' are ...
Badiou, A.   +54 more
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Evaluation of in vitro toxicity of common phytochemicals included in weight loss supplements using 1H NMR spectroscopy

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
We investigated the toxicity of 12 active compounds commonly found in herbal weight loss supplements (WLS) using human liver and colon cell models. Epigallocatechin‐3‐gallate was the only compound showing significant toxicity. Metabolic profiling revealed protein degradation, disrupted energy and lipid metabolism suggesting that the inclusion of EGCG ...
Emily C. Davies   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

DARI KONSUMERISME KE KONSUMTIVISME (Dalam Perpektif Sejarah Filsafat Barat)

open access: yesJurnal Filsafat, 2017
In this paper, the author tries to analyze of the consumptive behavior, especially the wasteful consumption of modern men and unfold of the intrinsic values and philosophical background of consumerism in the history of philosophy perspective (pre and ...
Armaidy Armawi
doaj   +1 more source

Beauty Both Ubiquitous and Exclusive: Emmeline Stuart-Wortley and the Great Exhibition

open access: yes19, 2023
This brief article focuses upon Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley’s response to the Great Exhibition of 1851, both her celebration of luxury goods in her poetry and her poetry as such a consumer good.
Daniel Brown
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From ethical consumerism to political consumption

open access: yes, 2008
This article reviews some of the recent literature in geography and related disciplines on ethical consumerism and political consumption. Many geographers began their engagement with questions of ethics, politics, consumption and consumerism inspired by ...
Clarke, Nick
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