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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract How do palliative care professionals negotiate end‐of‐life care with family members when prognosis and dying are not openly discussed? Based on ethnographic fieldwork in an Indonesian palliative care unit, I argue that palliative care professionals employ implicit, ambiguous and culturally sensitive communication to carefully negotiate ...
Hanum Atikasari
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Value Preservation through Risk Management - A Shariah Compliant Proposal for Equity Risk Management [PDF]
This paper makes a case for the preservation of Muslim Wealth through risk management. It provides an exposition of risk management techniques used in conventional finance and outlines the limitations faced by Muslim fund managers and businesses.
Bacha, Obiyathulla I.
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Transnational Nationalisms Reflections on Nationalism and Territory in Globalization
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transnational practices redefine nationalism: a nonterritorial sense of belonging for groups and extraterritorial sovereignty for states. Territory is at the core of the analysis in both cases. For groups and communities' transnationalism leads to a new imagined community guided by an “imagined geography” that is not territorial.
Riva Kastoryano
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Establishing construct validity and reliability: Pilot testing of a qualitative interview for research in Takaful (Islamic Insurance) [PDF]
, 2016 This paper describes the process of the conduct of preliminary tests to determine the construct and content validity of the chosen data collection method for a study into the relationship between Islamic principles and objectives, Islamic financial law ...
Dikko, Maryam
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the US electoral system, where states are conceived of and vote as discrete entities, state‐level characteristics are vital to consider because they reflect sociocultural context influencing voter behaviour. Though numerous studies have documented the connection between Christian nationalist ideology and voting for Donald Trump in 2016,
Andrew L. Whitehead, Samuel L. Perry
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The role of Islamic finance in economic development
, 2017 Islamic financial institutions have been growing rapidly in the past few years. Islamic finance refers to investments that are permissible in accordance with Sharia, the Islamic law. Sharia law views money as a measuring tool for value and not an “asset”
KHAN, Nora
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How Are Healthcare Providers Conscientiously Objecting to Abortion in Australia? A Qualitative Study
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Researchers have done limited empirical work to explore how healthcare providers are claiming conscientious objection to abortion care in Australia. Without this research, we cannot assess if existing mechanisms to regulate conscientious objection meet the needs of abortion seekers, abortion providers, and healthcare providers who
Bronwen Merner +4 more
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Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.Abstract Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) are novel financing mechanisms that encourage coal‐dependent emerging economies to transition away from fossil fuels. JETPs aim to facilitate coal phaseout and transitions to renewable energy through private and public financing.
Francine Hug
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Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 2014, Indonesia took a large step toward Universal Health Coverage and protection from the economic risk of illness—previous health insurance schemes were joined aiming to cover the entire population. This reform made it the largest single‐payer public health insurance scheme worldwide, which covered approximately 77% of Indonesian ...
Lisa Rogge
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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Welfare states in rich democracies have returned to a more ‘disciplinary’ agenda in recent decades. This has occurred roughly simultaneously with the so‐called ‘punitive turn’ in criminal justice. We argue that it makes sense to analyse the two movements together, as manifestations of the novel concept of the ‘disciplinary state’. Empirically,
Peter Starke, Georg Wenzelburger
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