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The Political Economy of Wellness: Commercial Determinants of a Burgeoning Industry
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Wellness has grown into a multi‐trillion‐dollar industry encompassing a multitude of products and practices that affect health and well‐being. Applying a lens of commercial determinants of health to wellness is useful to examine its intersection with systems of capital production, corporate interests, and neoliberal norms of personal ...
NANCY KARREMAN +3 more
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Safety & Contamination Information to Retailers regarding Control of Quality and Safety in Organic Production Chains [PDF]
, 2005 This leaflet provides a practical overview for retailers of what is done to secure the safety and purity of 7 types of organically pro-duced foods, and what the retailers can do to support those efforts and preserve the food safety until purchase.
Brandt, Kirsten +3 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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Stakeholders’ views on improving the organic certification system: Results from an EU level workshop [PDF]
, 2009 The FP7 CERTCOST project has the overall objective to give recommendations to the public authorities and private actors in the whole organic certification chain on how to improve the organic food certification systems in terms of efficiency, transparency
Abay, Canan +3 more
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Regional Science Policy &Practice, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract The agri‐food supply chain has been a popular research topic in recent years. The combination of a demand for products of high quality and safety standards and the increasing number of stakeholders in supply chain networks has required the agri‐food business to transform from vertically integrated to vertically operated supply chain networks ...
Thanh_Tuan Chu, Thi Thu Tra Pham
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The Food Fraud Landscape: A Brief Review of Food Safety and Authenticity
ProceedingsFood fraud poses a significant challenge within the global food supply chain, with apprehensions regarding safety, authenticity, and efficiency. This study conducts a brief review of the literature by utilizing the Web of Science database, analyzing 2331
Leonidas Sotirios Kyrgiakos +5 more
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Policing Online Pharmacies: Bioterrorism Meets the War on Drugs [PDF]
, 2001 In light of the recent terrorists attacks and the increasing threat of bioterrorism, many U.S. citizens have turned to the Internet in an attempt to gather the supplies needed to protect them and their loved ones.
Sweet, Mark
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COMMON SENSE LAW: Making Right/s in the Liberal City
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article, co‐authored by encampment and university scholars, is concerned with how homeless persons challenge rightlessness. We do so by advancing a conceptual framework of common sense law, arguing that such contestations take place not only in courtrooms but also in the lived spaces of homelessness.
Ananya Roy +3 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Trust is both a prerequisite and a product of insurance, as insurance contracts are built on and create trust relations that enable a risk‐averse perspective towards the future. At the same time, insurer‐policyholder relationships are characterised by a persistent distrust, rooted in insurance economics and industry reputation. In this article,
Maiju Tanninen, Gert Meyers
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