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Yonder: Difficult patients, falls prevention, hormonal contraception, and laughter therapy. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2019 Rashid A.
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“Risoterapia”: rir é o melhor remédio? / Laughter therapy: is laughter the best medicine?
, 2020 Objetivo: Avaliar a importância da “risoterapia” como prática de cuidado hospitalar. Métodos: Trata-se de um estudo de revisão integrativa da literatura, no período de 2008 a 2017, através de um levantamento em base de dados eletrônicos da BIREME e SCIELO.
Castro, Elder Mendes de +1 more
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Breathing through the rage: Maternal refusal as ethnographic method
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article theorizes maternal rage as an ethnographic method and affective archive, drawing on interviews with birthing people of color navigating medical neglect, obstetric violence, and postpartum abandonment. Rather than treating rage as an excess or failure of care, I frame it as a form of witnessing and refusal, a bodily record of harm ...
Lalaie Ameeriar
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
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“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
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THE EFFECT OF LAUGHTER THERAPY ON DECLINE LEVEL OF ANXIETY AMONG THE ELDERLY IN SAMARINDA
The prevalence of anxiety in Indonesia among elderly people in Indonesia has increased from 14.2% to 3.5%. The prevalence of anxiety in the elderly group in 2017 found that out of 30 elderly people, 63% experienced mild anxiety, 26.7% moderate anxiety ...
Pertiwi, Gracia Herni +1 more
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Searching for safety: Working conditions and policing in a US emergency department
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In the United States, emergency departments aren't supposed to turn anyone away. They are the safety‐net of the safety‐net providing life‐saving care. Yet, what happens to healthcare when conditions are so strained that patients and staff lash out at each other? What happens when the safety net becomes a carceral net?
Fabián Luis C. Fernández
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That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
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