A matter of psychic life and death: reappraising the death drive and its link to psychosis through the prism of the free energy principle. [PDF]
Front PsycholMellor MJ.
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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.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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A cross-national analysis of demographic variation in belief in God, gods, or spiritual forces in 22 countries. [PDF]
Sci RepAglozo EY +5 more
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Breaking Barriers: The History of Women's Education and the Training of Female Surgeons
ANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background and Aims Medicine and surgery have been practised by women since the earliest of times, but as these activities became professionalised, they became excluded by various barriers. The aims of this review are to identify these obstacles and how they were overcome.
John P. Collins
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The associations between Schistosoma mansoni infection, pre-treatment symptoms, praziquantel side effects, and treatment efficacy in Ugandan school-aged children. [PDF]
PLoS Negl Trop DisYu H +13 more
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Disaster risk reduction and Evangelical Christianity: a case for pluriversality in practice. [PDF]
DisastersWatson SD.
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