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Views from the Inside: Reflections on the Modern Hospital

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract There's a constant refrain in the press, on social media and from populist politicians that the NHS is dying on its feet. How accurate is this picture? This article takes a behind‐the‐scenes look at daily life in a modern, big city hospital. The Queen Elizabeth is now the biggest workplace in Birmingham.
Jon Bloomfield
wiley   +1 more source

Espetáculos do medo: o horror como atração no cinema japonês

open access: yesRevista Contracampo, 2013
Dentro da variada gama de filmes vindos da Ásia oriental, uma das mais influentes contribuições é a do cinema de horror desenvolvido no Japão a partir da segunda metade dos anos 1990, cuja inserção internacional fez com que, no Ocidente, fosse criado um “
Laura Loguercio Cánepa   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Swanscombe fossil at 90: revisiting its phylogeny, taxonomy, and place in human origins Le fossile de Swanscombe, 90 ans après : retour sur sa place phylogénique, taxonomique et dans les origines de l'humanité

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The year 2025 marked the ninetieth since a fossil hominin occipital bone was discovered in Swanscombe, southeast England. In subsequent years, its parietal bones were found, producing what remains the oldest partial cranium from Britain today. In the earliest analyses, it was interpreted as a descendant of the infamous fraudulent fossil Piltdown Man ...
Emma E. Bird, Chris Stringer
wiley   +1 more source

Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
wiley   +1 more source

Labors of Fear: The Modern Horror Film Goes to Work, edited by Aviva Briefel and Jason Middleton

open access: yesAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
From the gory cover art of VHS tapes to the iconic imagery of chainsaws, horror films have long been misconstrued as mere vehicles for shock and sensation.
Blake Lynch
doaj   +1 more source

Dark Places : Ecology, Place, and the Metaphysics of Horror Fiction

open access: yesMiranda: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone, 2015
This article deals with the generally underestimated importance of horror fiction for eco-critical thinking about place. It looks at three major horror writers, Poe, Lovecraft, and VanderMeer, exploring the ways that each plays with and deepens our ...
Brad Tabas
doaj   +1 more source

The Carceral Shadow: Criminal Justice as a Determinant of Health and Challenges for Policymakers

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points The criminal justice system functions as a primary social determinant of health in the United States, generating disproportionate physical, psychological, and chronic health burdens on Black communities and other marginalized groups. Policing structural barriers—including qualified immunity, police union contracts, and municipal financing
RASHAWN RAY, KEON GILBERT
wiley   +1 more source

Horror and Memory: Traces of Collective Memory in Turkish Horror Cinema

open access: yes4. Boyut Medya ve Kültürel Çalışmalar Dergisi
The deep narrative universe of Turkish horror cinema that reflects collective memory, Islamic and Turkish mythology, spatial reminders and traumatic memories combine to offer individuals a story that is both familiar and uncanny. In addition to examining
Çağla Coşar
doaj   +1 more source

Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

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