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Theoretical Approaches and Key Concepts in Medical Anthropology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The theoretical views and ideas offered in the following pages – which are quite long in order to offer a through explanation of the vast and diverse medical and anthropological literature we have available – regard specific concepts and paradigms that ...
IORIO, SILVIA
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The racist bodily imaginary: the image of the body-in-pieces in (post)apartheid culture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper outlines a reoccurring motif within the racist imaginary of (post)apartheid culture: the black body-in-pieces. This disturbing visual idiom is approached from three conceptual perspectives.
A Krog   +34 more
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Infection Control Practices for Vascular Access Management in Hemodialysis: Results From a Nationwide Survey of Japanese National University Hospitals

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Bloodstream infections due to repeated vascular access (VA) puncture and circuit connections remain major concerns in hemodialysis. Therefore, we examined current practices for glove, disinfectant, and personal protective equipment (PPE) use according to VA type in national university hospitals in Japan.
Aiko Yamada   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enteropathogenic E. coli shows delayed attachment and host response in human jejunum organoid‐derived monolayers compared to HeLa cells

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) infects the human intestinal epithelium, resulting in severe illness and diarrhoea. In this study, we compared the infection of cancer‐derived cell lines with human organoid‐derived models of the small intestine. We observed a delayed in attachment, inflammation and cell death on primary cells, indicating that host ...
Mastura Neyazi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnography of corporeality: A carnal move in educational technology research

open access: yesBritish Journal of Educational Technology, 2016
Despite the increasing focus on non-dualistic and materialist approaches in education technology studies, the materiality of the body has not been adequately examined.
J. Enriquez-Gibson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Digital world, lifeworld, and the phenomenology of corporeality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The contemporary world is characterised by the pervasive presence of digital technologies that play a part in almost every aspect of our life. An urgent and much-debated issue consists in evaluating the repercussions of these technologies on our human ...
Pace Giannotta, Andrea
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Knowing Mothers: Researching Maternal Identity Change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
How do women experience the identity changes involved in becoming mothers for the first time? Throughout in depth case examples, Wendy Hollway demonstrates how a different research methodology, underpinned by a psychoanalytically informed epistemology ...
Hollway, Wendy
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Corporate Counterspeech

open access: yesEthical Theory and Moral Practice, 2022
AbstractAre corporations ever morally obligated to engage in counterspeech—that is, in speech that aims to counter hate speech and misinformation? While existing arguments in moral and political philosophy show that individuals and states have such obligations, it is an open question whether those arguments apply to corporations as well. In this essay,
openaire   +2 more sources

Organoids in pediatric cancer research

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Organoid technology has revolutionized cancer research, yet its application in pediatric oncology remains limited. Recent advances have enabled the development of pediatric tumor organoids, offering new insights into disease biology, treatment response, and interactions with the tumor microenvironment.
Carla Ríos Arceo, Jarno Drost
wiley   +1 more source

“CORPOREALITY” IN SOCIOLOGICAL DISCOURSE: GENERAL SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIO-CULTURAL DETERMINANTS OF THEORIZATION

open access: yesSovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2013
The article is devoted to contemporary sociological theorizing that characterizes by a shift of research interests to the micro-social phenomena and processes, resulting actualization of corporeality in the frames of sociological discourse.
Tupikova Susanna Viktorovna
doaj   +1 more source

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