Against All Odds: How Rituals Sustain Engagement with Intractable Social Problems
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Being confronted with seemingly intractable problems such as refugee crises, climate change, or poverty is daunting and can risk a sense of meaninglessness for organizational actors working on these issues. We focus on the pervasive use of representations, including assessments and evaluations, to deal with intractable problems, even though ...
Corinna Frey‐Heger +2 more
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Human Health Risk Assessment of Informal Slaughter by Small-Scale Farmers in Gauteng Province, South Africa, Focusing on <i>Brucella abortus</i>. [PDF]
Vet Med IntDeclercq G, Liu CC, Michel AL.
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Erased by law: Kinship, care, and bureaucratic exclusion at the end of life in South Korea
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how institutional frameworks in South Korea erase nonlegal caregiving relationships within hospice care environments. Drawing on seven months of ethnographic fieldwork, the study delineates how patients are categorized as “unclaimed” despite the presence of long‐term companions or cohabitants who provide intimate end‐of ...
Seok Joo Youn
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Latent profiles of death coping competence among nursing interns and associations with death attitudes, death exposure, and death education; a cross-sectional survey. [PDF]
Int J Nurs Stud AdvXi X +6 more
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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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Factors associated with palliative care attitudes among undergraduate nursing students through personal experiences: A cross-sectional study. [PDF]
PLoS OneXie Y, Chen Q, Xiao J, Li C.
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Convergent Reproductive Governance and the Normalization of Caesarean Birth in Northern Thailand
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Caesarean section (C‐section) rates in Thailand have nearly doubled over the past two decades, a trend often attributed to women's preferences, convenience, or advanced maternal age. Drawing on ethnographic research in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, this article argues that such explanations are insufficient. I show that rising C‐section rates
Anjalee Cohen
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Death and grief literacy in the context of loneliness: Insights from an international symposium. [PDF]
Palliat Care Soc PractKremeike K +9 more
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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Reframing Obesity as Collective Vulnerability in Black Churches in The USA: Implications for Clergy Leadership, Health Equity, and Pastoral Identity. [PDF]
J Relig HealthCarper L, Tettey NS, Griffin H.
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