Results 241 to 250 of about 43,851 (337)

Depictions of older adults residing in nursing homes: a Goffman-inspired thematic analysis of children's picture books in a Danish context. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Glasdam S, Gulestø RJA, Stilwell C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Live Listening at the Margins of Meaning: Uncertainty and Updating

Journal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
Devyani Sharma
wiley   +1 more source

“Why can't they put us to sleep if we are suffering?”: La Nada and the desire for euthanasia among institutionalized older adults in Peru

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
wiley   +1 more source

Diet and leishmaniasis in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In Ecuador's Amazon, Indigenous communities affected by leishmaniasis often modify their diets as part of their health‐seeking practices. Drawing on qualitative research with sixty‐eight participants from seven Indigenous groups, this study explores how and why patients’ diets shift in pursuit of healing from leishmaniasis.
Veronica Cristina Vargas Roman
wiley   +1 more source

Perceptual Learning and Predictability of Children's Speech. [PDF]

J Speech Lang Hear Res
Tetzloff KA, Wisler A, Barrett TS, Borrie SA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Policing the safety net: Medical and carceral management of violence in a Los Angeles County public hospital

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Medical anthropologists have long shown how hospitals function as spaces of both care and control, yet the entanglement of policing and trauma care remains understudied. This paper offers an ethnographic account of how trauma surgeons in a Los Angeles County hospital navigate the embedded presence of police within their clinical work.
Emily Virginia Jones
wiley   +1 more source

"Do not act blind": findings from qualitative interviews with adolescents and adults living with a visual impairment or blindness. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Milde N, Kessel L, Larsen AC, Larsen K.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Formosan Black Bear and Taiwanese Nationalism

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that situates nations and nationalism within colonial relations, this article examines nationalism in settler‐colonial Taiwan amid China's colonial claim to sovereignty. Drawing on interviews, conservation documents and popular representations, we show how the Formosan black bear became a national symbol of resistance ...
Yung‐Ying Chang, John Chung‐En Liu
wiley   +1 more source

The strategic distraction motive: addiction as attentional regulation under perceived insolubility. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Alaye FA, Gelo O, Unterrainer HF.
europepmc   +1 more source

Welcome Home: A Shared Identity Recognition in the Time of Crisis

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does a society sustain collective identity when formal citizenship and cultural recognition persistently diverge? Drawing on qualitative interviews with native‐born sabras and Russian‐speaking immigrants in Israel, this article develops a recognition‐gap framework specifying the mechanisms through which national belonging is produced ...
Mania Borzenko
wiley   +1 more source