4/ Queering death in the medical and health humanities
Whatever, 2021 This is part 4 of 6 of the dossier What do we talk about when we talk about queer death?, edited by M. Petricola. The contributions collected in this article sit at the crossroads between thanatology, queer studies, and the medical/health humanities and ...
Yana Kirey-Sitnikova +4 more
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Case-control study developing Scottish Epilepsy Deaths Study Score to predict epilepsy-related death [PDF]
Brain, 2022 AbstractThis study aimed to develop a risk prediction model for epilepsy-related death in adults.In this age- and sex-matched case-control study, we compared adults (aged ≥16 years) who had epilepsy-related death between 2009 and 2016 to living adults with epilepsy in Scotland.
Gashirai K Mbizvo +4 more
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Ancestor worship in contemporary Japan
Японские исследования, 2022 This article examines the transformation of ancestor worship in the context of socio-political and religious conditions and identifies the characteristics of worship in contemporary Japanese society and the changes in the form of practices and functions ...
I. V. Avdiushenkova
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Socioeconomic status as a risk factor for dementia death:individual participant meta-analysis of 86 508 men and women from the UK [PDF]
, 2013 Background Life-course socioeconomic factors may have a role in dementia aetiology but there is a current paucity of studies. Meta-analyses of individual participant data would considerably strengthen this evidence base.
Cox +12 more
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Some issues of shaping thanatology as a discipline: Ethnological and anthropological perspectives [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2016 Development of death studies, choice of topics and aspects of their interpretations were influenced by many factors, both global and local.
Pavićević Aleksandra
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Structural imaging biomarkers of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. [PDF]
, 2015 Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy is a major cause of premature death in people with epilepsy. We aimed to assess whether structural changes potentially attributable to sudden death pathogenesis were present on magnetic resonance imaging in people who ...
Balestrini, Simona +12 more
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A comparison of neonatal outcomes between adolescent and adult mothers in developed countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2020 Evidence suggests that adolescent pregnancies are at increased risk of adverse neonatal outcomes compared to adult pregnancies; however, there are significant inconsistencies in the literature, particularly in studies conducted in developed countries ...
Marvin-Dowle, K, Soltani, Hora
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Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 2021 The title of the book shows, based on a metaphor, the use of euphemism to refer to death. The reader can obtain a transversal vision of this subject: from traditional thought to the great change that took place in the 19th century with the ...
Esperanza Morales
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Accepting higher morbidity in exchange for sacrificing fewer animals in studies developing novel infection-control strategies. [PDF]
, 2020 Preventing bacterial infections from becoming the leading cause of death by the year 2050 requires the development of novel, infection-control strategies, building heavily on biomaterials science, including nanotechnology.
Busscher, Henk J. +16 more
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Duty not to delete: towards the question of the rights of the digital person after death [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"The article examines the concept and scope of a discipline called ‘digital thanatology’, which explores how death and dying continue in digital space, transcending physical life through data preservation, virtual memorials, chatbots, digital trace and
I. N. Kazarina
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