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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This paper analyzes two disparate experiences of buprenorphine, a medication for opioid addiction, in California. Within the context of the U.S. War on Drugs and after decades of criminalization, buprenorphine represents a shift toward outpatient medical treatment of opioid addiction, but it has been unequally distributed and experienced ...
Lauren Textor
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Documented migrant workers from Indonesia recruited for work in Malaysia need to undergo tuberculosis screenings before being issued work permits and visas. Centered on the production, circulation, and interpretation of chest X‐ray images, these screenings are shaped in concrete, practical ways by the demands of border control regulations ...
Jonathan Kraemer
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Time, place, person: Field epidemiology as a political practice
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Five years after the end of the Ebola epidemic, a district in Sierra Leone received a measles alert. This article tells the story of the epidemic that followed and the response that was mounted in the context of the new global epidemic preparedness and biosecurity paradigms that govern the management of health emergencies.
Luisa Enria
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73 days?! Examining the rate at which medical knowledge doubles and its implications
Medical Education, EarlyView.Abstract The Issue: ‘Knowledge is accumulating faster than human‐beings have the capacity to assimilate it’. According to popular estimate, knowledge now doubles every 73 days, roughly the lifespan of a housefly. We need, therefore, to stop thinking of health professional education in terms of transmission of knowledge.
Kevin W. Eva
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The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
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The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
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One Crisis to Solve Another? The Place of Care in a World of Automated Work
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Anca Gheaus
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New Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the COVID‐19 pandemic, the nuclear and border control services had to reorganise their work, both on‐site and remotely, to continue their activities. Whereas employees came to work at the power plants and border posts every day, the health rules introduced by the public authorities and those relating to the lockdown of populations ...
Laure Bonnaud, Tania Navarro Rodríguez
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Low Weight Loss Response to Incretin Analogs: A Systematic Review
Obesity Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The development of GLP‐1 and GIP analogs has been a significant breakthrough in type 2 diabetes and obesity pharmacotherapy. However, individual responses to these medications can vary widely. This systematic review examines factors associated with low or no weight loss response to GLP‐1 and GIP analogs. Key predictors of poor response include
Pamela S. Gaskin, Peter S. Chami
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