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A funeral and a birthday [PDF]

open access: yesPalliative and Supportive Care, 2021
Rebecca David, Simon Wein
openaire   +2 more sources

The Ebola virus disease outbreak in Tonkolili district, Sierra Leone: a retrospective analysis of the Viral Haemorrhagic Fever surveillance system, July 2014–June 2015 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In Sierra Leone, the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak occurred with substantial differences between districts with someone even not affected. To monitor the epidemic, a community event-based surveillance system was set up, collecting data into the ...
Colizzi, Vittorio   +7 more
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Att komplettera eller konkurrera? Om prästers och begravningsentreprenörers arbetsuppgifter och ansvarsområden

open access: yesSvensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2013
Funeral directors and priests — do they complement each other or do they compete? Based on field studies at funeral directors’ and a survey among priests in the Church of Sweden, conflicts between the two parts are analyzed. The funeral directors mainly
Anna Davidsson Bremborg
doaj  

Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

The Word is Life: An Anthology of Funeral Meditations [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Reviewed Book: The Word is Life: An Anthology of Funeral Meditations. Lima, Ohio: CSS Pub, 1994. Reviewed Book: This New Life Together: An Anthology of Wedding Meditations.
Riegert, Eduard R.
core   +1 more source

Lactation, Childrearing, and Gender Justice

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss the significance of early infant feeding choices for the goal of gender justice. Focusing on human lactation practices, I identify Exclusive Gestational Nursing (EGN) as the norm in advanced industrial societies, which creates the expectation and permission for gestators, and only gestators, to nurse children, and ...
Jenny Brown
wiley   +1 more source

The Relevance of Apology to Reparations for Historical Injustice

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explains the centrality of apology to an adequate account of reparations. I look in depth at what goes on in apology. As I have previously argued, apology is an expressive action through which we seek to mark adequately the significance of our own wrongdoing. I claim that apology so understood is not merely ornamental.
Christopher Bennett
wiley   +1 more source

From Coffins to Coffers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The funeral industry in the United States is big business, generating more than $11 billion annually and employing over 100,000 people. Since 1999, the industry has given more than $6 million to political parties and state-level candidates in 46 states ...
Scott Jordan
core  

Understanding Autistic Young Adults' Perceptions and Experiences of Traumatic and Stressful Events

open access: yesJournal of Clinical Psychology, Volume 81, Issue 6, Page 445-461, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives The aim of this study was to explore how young autistic adults experience and respond to stressful life events, and the relationship between autistic characteristics and symptoms of stress associated with these events. Methods Using an exploratory sequential mixed‐methods approach, an online qualitative survey was first administered
Alliyza Lim, Robyn L. Young
wiley   +1 more source

Opium trade and use during the Late Bronze Age: Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the burials of Tel Yehud, Israel

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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