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Autism and mild epilepsy associated with a de novo missense pathogenic variant in the GTPase effector domain of DNM1

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Dynamin 1 is a GTPase protein involved in synaptic vesicle fission, which facilitates the exocytosis of neurotransmitters necessary for normal signaling. Pathogenic variants in the DNM1 gene are associated with intractable epilepsy, often manifested as infantile spasms at onset, developmental delay, and a movement disorder, and are located in ...
Davide Mei, Elena Parrini, Claudia Bianchini, Maria Luisa Ricci, Renzo Guerrini   +4 more
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Evidencing in medical anthropology

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2019
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Eileen Moyer, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
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Edgework in medical anthropology

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2017
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Eileen Moyer, Vinh-Kim Nguyen
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Anthropology of disease. In the wake of the Arctic Circle epidemics: field materials of I.S. Gurvich [PDF]

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2021
The unique body of materials collected by the Soviet ethnographer and the North scholar I.S. Gurvich (1919–1992) in places of compact residence of the indigenous peoples of Yakutia (the Yukagir expedition of 1959) for the first time determined scientific
Romanova E.N. , Stepanova L.B.
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Anthropological approaches to medical humanitarianism

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2017
Despite broadly shared interest in the welfare of ‘precarious lives’, medical anthropology and medical humanitarianism are too often in tension. In this survey, we sketch a history of the two disciplines, then track three major patterns through which ...
Isabel Beshar, Darryl Stellmach
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Anthropological Reflections on Medicalization

Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies in Human Rights and Science, 2019
Cite article: Molina Aguilar, J. (2019). Anthropological Reflections on Medicalization - Knowmad institut. Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies on Human Rights and Science, 1(4). Knowmad Institut. https://knowmadinstitut.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/EN_Anthropological-Reflections-on-Medicalization.pdf CC BY-NC 4.0 // 2020 | Knowmad Institut ...
Molina Aguilar, Jorge, European Institute for Multidisciplinary Studies on Human Rights and Science - Knowmad Institut   +1 more
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Epidemiology, social history, and the beginnings of medical anthropology in the highlands of New Guinea

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2018
Shirley Lindenbaum’s study in the early 1960s of the origins and transmission of kuru among the Fore people of the eastern highlands of New Guinea is one of the earliest examples of an explicitly medical anthropology.
Warwick Anderson
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Ethics as Embodied Practice: Reflexivity, Dialogue and Collaboration – in Conversation with Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger

International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 2022
Hansjörg Dilger is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin with a specialisation in critical medical anthropology and the anthropology of religious diversity.
Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo, Hansjörg Dilger   +1 more
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A Companion to Medical Anthropology

Anthropological Review, 2016
Merrill Singer and Pamela I. Erickson (eds.). 2015. A Companion to Medical Anthropology. Blackwell Companions to Anthropology. Wiley Blackwell, United Kingdom, 541 pp. ISBN: 978-1-118-86321-3.
Żądzińska Elżbieta
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Ut over ”illness” og ”disease”

Kulturella Perspektiv, 2015
In this article I introduce readers to the history of medical anthropology. Medical anthropology is a subfield within social anthropology that has the cultural dimensions of health and illness as its main research interest and focus.
Karine Aasgaard Jansen
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