When Urgency Drops: Temporal Consciousness and the Choreography of Dying
ABSTRACT In the hospital, the transition from fighting for life to preparing for death involves not only a shift in medical repertoires but also a profound transformation in temporal experience. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Canadian intensive care unit, this article examines how the tempo of care, its rhythms, urgencies, and pauses shapes ...
Louise Chartrand
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Hearing Outcomes During Induction Therapy in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: Applicability of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss Criteria. [PDF]
Kaczmarczyk MS +9 more
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics
ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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Exploring causal associations between autoimmune diseases and hearing loss: a mendelian randomization study. [PDF]
Huang Y, Gao S, Luo R.
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Abstract Purpose Fania (Fanny) Kaplan (1890–1918), who was reportedly visually impaired, confessed to the attempted assassination of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) in 1918 by shooting him with a pistol. The precise nature of her visual loss is unknown and raises doubts about whether she had sufficient visual function to perform the act ...
Stephen G. Schwartz +3 more
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Characteristics and Prognostic Analysis in Diving-Induced Ear Trauma and Sudden Hearing Loss. [PDF]
Yi TC, Weng TH, Chen HC.
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Research Ethics in Conflict Zones: Reflections on ‘Do no Harm’ Ethics for the Research Network
ABSTRACT What does it mean to ‘do no harm’ in academic research? ‘Do no harm’ ethics emphasizes the responsibility of researchers to mitigate the emotional, physical, and political harms that may arise through participation in research. These concerns are heightened in conflict zones, where access constraints and intersecting vulnerabilities shape the ...
K. B. Roberts
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Prognostic factors for pediatric sudden sensorineural hearing loss: a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
Wu Z, Zhang P, Sun J, Diao M.
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Frayed Rope and Resilient Threads: Fijian Healthcare and the COVID‐19 Pandemic
ABSTRACT In April 2021, Fiji faced international scrutiny due to ‘horrific’ hospital conditions, including staff and patients lacking food, non‐operational operating theatres, and critical shortages of beds, medicine, and equipment. After successfully avoiding a major outbreak in 2020, a sudden surge in COVID‐19 cases in 2021 overwhelmed the public ...
Sharon McLennan +3 more
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