A Reexamination of Dr. Masanao Goto's Leprosy Treatment in Hawai'i: New Insights from Japanese and Hawaiian Sources. [PDF]
Yuji K, Yuji W.
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Economic policy uncertainty and the dynamics of healthcare expenditure in China. [PDF]
Sui Y, Zhang L, Han S, Yun Q.
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The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil
ABSTRACT The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) primarily organized occupations of large‐scale farms, forcing the redistribution of land for creation of agrarian reform settlements. In the past 20 years, however, land occupations and the establishment of new agrarian reform settlements have consistently declined, while the MST shifted ...
Estevan Coca, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
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From invisibility to political power: Policy lessons from a decade of Brazil's Social Forum for Infectious and Neglected Diseases. [PDF]
Pinheiro EDS +7 more
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Abstract Despite growing recognition that countries around the world must transition to a low‐carbon economy, global greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. One way that decarbonization has been obstructed, we argue, is by fossil fuel firms intentionally conflating their agenda with ‘the people’, evoking notions of national identity, security and ...
Daniel Nyberg +3 more
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The politics of health: exploring the potential and the limits of health in all policies under multilevel governance. [PDF]
Koivusalo M +4 more
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Abstract We theorize how state ownership reweights organizational objectives when political and market conditions shift. Using a mixed‐method, history‐to‐theory design, we examine 160 state‐owned and 132 private Brazilian firms from 1973 to 1993. We argue that two mechanisms – appointment politicization and constituency‐protection salience – alter ...
Paul Ferreira +2 more
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Increasing community vulnerability to gastrointestinal infections in austerity's shadow: a comparative study of two English local authorities. [PDF]
Rotheram S +3 more
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Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
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Argentina's mental health at a crossroads: retrenchment and local resistance. [PDF]
Barcala A.
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