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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 752-764, October 2026.ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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Hippocrates: facts and fiction
Acta Theologica, 2005 Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, is reviewed as a historical person and in terms of his contribution to medicine in order to distinguish fact from fiction.
Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers
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The Part of the Primary Care Provider in our National Awakening to Systemic Racism
Voices in Bioethics, 2020 Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash INTRODUCTION Racism makes people sick. As the United States navigates a social awakening, primary care providers (PCPs) need to join the movement by addressing the impact of racism on our society.
Katie Chaucer, Monika DeTurk
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The Concept of Harm in Medical Ethics
Bioethics, Volume 40, Issue 8, Page 871-877, October 2026.ABSTRACT The concept of harm is central to medical ethics. In particular, it is frequently used in ethical deliberation about clinical cases and harm‐benefit analyses. Despite its significance, there has been surprisingly little discussion in practice about conceptual approaches and the nature of harm in medical ethics analyses.
Marie‐Christine Fritzsche +1 more
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Law &Policy, Volume 48, Issue 4, October 2026.ABSTRACT In this article we analyze case studies of abortion and marriage equality to identify how judicial discretion and signaling prodded conservative investments in new movement organizations charged with overcoming scientific expertise barriers that had previously stymied conservative policy victories.
Alison Gash, Joshua C. Wilson
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Forging legal communitas: physicians’ resistance in media discourses in Sweden's ‘Snitch Law’ debate
Journal of Law and Society, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 496-520, September 2026.Abstract In October 2022, the Swedish government announced a series of reforms in the field of migration policy, including a proposed legal obligation requiring all employees in public institutions, including healthcare professionals, to report people living as undocumented migrants in the country to the authorities.
JOSEPHINE T. V. GREENBROOK +6 more
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Risk, Recklessness, and Objectivism
Ratio, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 158-167, September 2026.ABSTRACT One classic objection to Objectivism about ought is that it recommends unconscionably risky actions in so‐called Three‐Option‐Cases, the most famous of which is Jackson's case featuring a doctor called Jill. Some philosophers deny this orthodoxy and claim that Objectivism can yet account for our intuitions in such cases.
Daniele Bruno
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Teisė, 2008 Straipsnyje remiantis Hipokrato priesaikos, kaip etinio dokumento, ir baudžiamosios teisės normų, kriminalizuojančių eutanaziją ir padėjimą nusižudyti, pavyzdžiu nagrinėjama platesnė baudžiamosios teisės ir moralės santykio problema.
Mantas Liesis
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Hippocratic and Judeo-Christian Medical Ethics Defended
, 2008 The Hippocratic oath and ethic have guided medicine for twenty-five hundred years. In the past thirty years there has been an effort to discredit the Hippocratic tradition.
Guinan, Patrick
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Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Volume 26, Issue 2, August 2026.Abstract Fat people, and particularly fat women, face pervasive and salient stigma in healthcare contexts, resulting in downstream health disparities. We investigated whether a representational identity safety cue could mitigate experiences of threat and stigma, and prompt feelings of belonging.
Flora Blanchette +4 more
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