From Disease to Illness: Reframing Periodontitis Through an Anthropological Lens
Periodontitis is at once a disease, an illness, and a sickness—where biological pathology, lived experience, and social meaning intersect. The proposed integrated model links upstream structural actions with downstream clinical and educational practices through feedback loops that promote equitable and effective prevention and care.
Carlo Galli +3 more
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Scientific Ritual: The Institutional Review Boards for Human Clinical Trials in Israel
Abstract This ethnographic study analyzes Israeli Institutional Review Boards (IRBs’) main practices and discourses. I describe IRB operations as bureaucratic rituals derived from idealized scientific values, with physician‐scientist members serving as gatekeepers who perform boundary work to preserve professional independence.
Hedva Eyal
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ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of local labour market concentration on wage and non‐wage attributes, leveraging demand‐side panel data. The analysis replicates the standard findings on wage and hiring elasticity, potentially revealing an additional layer‐abstention from collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) could lead to a double ...
Simone Chinetti
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Like diamonds in the sky? Public perceptions, governance, and information framing of solar geoengineering activities in Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [PDF]
Baum CM +4 more
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Book Reviews of Moral Clarity in the Nuclear Age by Michael Novak -- Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion by Beverly Wildung Harrison -- The Death Decision: Eight Experts Address the Legal and Ethical Issues Emerging on the Frontier of Today\u27s New Biology edited Leonard J. Nelson -- Challenge to Love: Gay and Lesbian Catholics in the Church edited by Robert Nugent [PDF]
Catholic Physicians\u27 Guild
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ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in public decision‐making; yet existing governance tools often lack clear definitions of harm and benefit, practical methods for weighing competing values, and guidance for resolving value conflicts.
Karl de Fine Licht, Anna Folland
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Conflict Resolution in the 21st Century: A South Asian Perspective
ABSTRACT Conflicts in the contemporary international system have increasingly shifted from state‐centric power struggles to deeply rooted human needs crises. This study applies John Burton's Human Needs Theory to explain the persistence of the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan, focusing on the deprivation of identity, recognition, and ...
Hafeez Ullah Khan
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Time lags in environmental governance: A critical review. [PDF]
Hocherman T, Trop T, Ghermandi A.
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Sentientist Political Liberalism
ABSTRACT This paper introduces sentientist political liberalism. Elaborating on the fundamental ideas in John Rawls's political liberalism, we propose that the scheme of fair social cooperation among persons should be understood as embedded within a broader system of social coexistence between persons and other sentient beings.
Eze Paez, Pablo Magaña
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Employment type and policy compliance with strict measures during public health crises: evidence from self-employed workers in China. [PDF]
Lyu T +6 more
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