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Law as a technology of exclusion: the legal construction of racialized and gendered work relations through the case study of international labour law in the first half of the twentieth century

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the role of labour law in processes of racialization and gendering of work. It argues that labour law not only protects certain forms of work (law as a protective mechanism), but also systematically excludes other forms of work, especially those performed by racialized and gendered individuals (law as a technology of ...
JULIETA LOBATO
wiley   +1 more source

Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
wiley   +1 more source

Eugenics and euthanasia – then and now

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2009
A main objective of this article is to give a presentation of the widespread acceptance of eugenics in the twentieth century and to show how the German euthanasia programmes were embedded in eugenic ideology. A second objective is to challenge the notion
Lars Grue
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Grotesque maternity: reading "happiness" and its eugenics in Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child (1988) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper contexualises and reads Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child (1988) as a criticism towards the Family Acts conducted by Thatcher’s government in 1980s Britain. The article principally draws attention to the main and minor protagonist’s “annomalous”
Uematsu, Nozomi
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Incidence and Outcomes of Surgically Managed Ectopic Pregnancy in Women With Disabilities: A Population‐Based Cross‐Sectional Study

open access: yesPaediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Disparities in the incidence, management, and outcomes of ectopic pregnancy have been documented among marginalised patients; however, there are few data on ectopic pregnancy in women with disabilities. Objective To compare the incidence and outcomes of surgically managed ectopic pregnancy in women with and without disability ...
Natalie V. Scime   +3 more
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Discussions on the “Physical Degeneration of the Proletariat” and the Soviet Eugenics Project of the 1920s

open access: yesИзвестия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки, 2018
This article considers the background and features of the formation of the Soviet model of mass sports and physical culture development in connection with the theory and practice of Soviet eugenicists of the 1920s.
Ilya Victorovich Sidorchuk
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Eugenics [PDF]

open access: yes
The main concern of the first eugenists, such as Karl Pearson and Walter Weldon of University College London , were the perceived intelligence factors considered to be correlated with the social class.
Sfetcu, Nicolae
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Emerging risk factors influencing the occurrence of peri‐implantitis

open access: yesPeriodontology 2000, EarlyView.
Abstract Background The objective of the present review is to explore the evidence and biological plausibility of factors that may expose dental implants to a greater likelihood of developing peri‐implantitis. Material and Methods An electronic screening on the PubMed library the was carried out to identify potential emerging factors that influence the
Alberto Monje   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Deserves Scarce Health and Education Resources? How Policy Context Shapes Target Group Deservingness

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The social construction of target populations (SCTP) framework emphasizes the ways in which target populations' levels of political power and deservingness shape the allocation of policy benefits, but less attention has been devoted to the conditions under which the same target population may be considered deserving in one policy context but ...
Elizabeth Bell   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Vitamin D Metabolism-Related Genes in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss and Their Immune Microenvironmental Changes

open access: yesJournal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
Jiangmei He, Hongmei Liu, Jingru Ji Department of Eugenics and Genetics, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Jiangmei He, Email acc0351@163.comPurpose: The importance of ...
He J, Liu H, Ji J
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