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The rise of informed consent and retreat from dependence upon unclaimed bodies in anatomy: An overview and assessment

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The development of anatomy has been marked by ethically questionable practices. This has been because the dissection of human bodies has always existed on the periphery of conventional society, necessitating a range of dubious ways of obtaining dead bodies for educational and research purposes.
David Gareth Jones
wiley   +1 more source

Parenting Experiences of Informal Kinship Caregivers: Similarities and Differences between Grandparents and Other Relatives

open access: yesSocieties
Informal kinship care, an arrangement that is made without the involvement of a child welfare agency or a court, makes up the majority of kinship arrangements in the United States. However, the current literature on informal kinship care is very limited.
Eun Koh   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

KINSHIP AND HISTORY: TRIBES, GENEALOGIES, AND SOCIAL CHANGE AMONG THE BEDOUIN OF THE EASTERN ARAB WORLD [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Most scholars of tribal organization among the Bedouin of the eastern Arab world utilize a two-dimensional, hierarchical model of Bedouin kinship that represents only relations of descent and affinity. This model resembles a genealogy and shows how small
Young, William C
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The lack of legal protections in the United States to prevent commercializing the dead for education and research: Consequences and risks to anatomists

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract A lack of minimum legal standards for body donation programs undermines recent strides by anatomy professionals to promote ethical best practices in the United States (US). In particular, the commercialization of the dead by nontransplant tissue banks poses a risk to the public trust in academic body donation programs.
Laura E. Johnson
wiley   +1 more source

Philosophical Criticism of Genealogical Claims and Stoic Depoliticization of Politics: Greco-Roman Strategies in Paul's Allegorical Interpretation of Hagar and Sarah (Gal 4:21-31) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
George H. van Kooten, “Philosophical Criticism of Genealogical Claims and Stoic Depoliticization of Politics: Greco-Roman Strategies in Paul’s Allegorical Interpretation of Hagar and Sarah (Gal 4:21-31),” in Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites ...
Kooten, George H. van,
core   +1 more source

Can boarding schools help looked after and vulnerable children improve academic attainment?

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The education of children in statutory care, or at the edge of care, is a serious concern for governments and policymakers. How to promote educational opportunities for these children can involve challenging and often contentious proposals. In this paper, we study one proposal put into practice in England: the provision to children who are in ...
David Murphy   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kinship, Incentives and Evolution [PDF]

open access: yes
We analyze how family ties affect incentives, with focus on the strategic interaction between two mutually altruistic siblings. The siblings exert effort to produce output under uncertainty, and they may transfer output to each other.
Ingela Alger, Jörgen Weibull
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Related Foster Parents Less Likely to Receive Support Services Compared With Nonrelative Foster Parents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This brief identifies gaps in support services among foster parents using data from a nationally representative survey of children involved in the child welfare system (the second National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being).
Mattingly, Marybeth J., Walsh, Wendy A.
core   +1 more source

What characterises well‐connected schools? Exploring centrality in inter‐organisational school networks

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Within the educational literature, inter‐organisational school networks are commonly considered instruments for administration, management, and school improvement, but are rarely scrutinised as objects of study themselves. Conversely, in organisational studies, this perspective is given more prominence.
Ignacio Wyman, Paul Wilfred Armstrong
wiley   +1 more source

Contextualizing descent in Neolithic northern Europe

open access: yesBulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris
This article explores the role that co-locating the bodies of people who were connected by patrilineal descent at burial grounds played within broader fields of Neolithic kinship relations, using three case studies: a cemetery at Gurgy 'les Noisats ...
Chris Fowler
doaj   +1 more source

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