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Borrowing Size and Functions From Nearby Cities: The Mediating Role of Inter‐Municipal Cooperation

Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper first analyzes whether the efficiency of smaller municipalities is associated with the agglomeration advantages of their larger neighbors through “borrowed size” and “borrowed functions” mechanisms. Second, it explores the role of inter‐municipal cooperation (IMC) in these mechanisms.
Juan Piedra‐Peña, Marie‐Laure Breuillé, Julie Le Gallo   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Up to and including death”: understanding anaesthesia‐related anxiety among pet owners in a tertiary‐care setting

Journal of Small Animal Practice, EarlyView.
Objectives Preparing clients for their pet to undergo general anaesthesia is an important and common task for veterinary professionals. The aims of this study were to better understand referral client anxiety relating to general anaesthesia and to determine their level of knowledge in this area.
A. Shuttleworth, C. Adami
wiley   +1 more source

Pediatric Medical Tourism: International Patients Seeking Treatment in the United States for Malignancy and Serious Hematologic Disorders. A Review of the St Jude Experience. [PDF]

JCO Glob Oncol
Hashmi SK, Klein S, Acharya R, Mothi SS, Boggs J, Dodd T, Johnson LM.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Short‐Term Trips, Short‐Term Effects? Exploring the Association Between Religious Retreats and Mission Trips With Subjective Well‐Being

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although religious service attendance is touted for its reliable measurement and robust associations with well‐being, the overwhelming focus on attendance has allowed other aspects of religious participation to be significantly understudied.
Rachael Murdock, Laura Upenieks
wiley   +1 more source

On Medical Tourism Overseas: Ethical Analysis of the Duties of NHS Doctors in Managing the Negative Health Consequences of Accessing Medical Treatments Abroad. [PDF]

J Eval Clin Pract
Armitage RC.
europepmc   +1 more source

Beyond safety net value(s): Tourist hotel rooms for people experiencing homelessness

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the shape of care and value through an ethnographic study of an intensive, temporary housing intervention for people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, California, during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Building on a new anthropological theory of value, the results highlight the slipperiness between surveillance and care,
Naomi C. Schoenfeld
wiley   +1 more source

SCARFISH: A new SCAR action group to co‐ordinate Antarctic fish research

Journal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Jilda Alicia Caccavo, Cassandra Brooks, Erica Carlig, Rachel D. Cavanagh, Thomas Desvignes, Davide Di Blasi, Jennifer J. Freer, Laura Ghigliotti, Christopher Jones, Jin‐Hyoung Kim, Hayley Kwasniewski, Rebecca Konijnenberg, Dale Maschette, Mao Mori, Manuel Novillo, Matthew H. Pinkerton, José Pedro Queirós, William D. K. Reid, Anton P. Van de Putte, Julia M. York, SCARFISH members, José Abreu, Sadie Ainsworth, Rajendran Shobha Ajin, Valentina Bernal‐Durán, Emily Alana Burke, César A. Cárdenas, William A.J. Connor, Andrew Corso, Jacob M. Daane, Tracey Dornan, Patrick Eskuche‐Keith, Nur Azalina Suzianti Feisal, Denisse Fierro‐Arcos, Brittany Finucci, Simona Georgieva, Pedro M. Guerreiro, Svenja Halfter, Philip Hollyman, Huw W. James, Mario La Mesa, Felix Mark, Tshoanelo Miya, Noorashikin Noor, Daniela Nualart, Takehiro Okuda, Chiara Papetti, Charlie Plasman, María Lorena Romero Martínez, Francisco Santa Cruz, Julia Saravia, Daniela Storch, Katharina Teschke, Aimee van der Reis, Luis Vargas‐Chacoff, Andrea Walters, Joel Williams, Philippe Ziegler   +57 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Thrombotic complications following bariatric surgery: how medical tourism poses challenges to comprehensive care in obesity medicine. [PDF]

Clin J Gastroenterol
Mandour MO, Bakewell R, Ong J.
europepmc   +1 more source

“Why can't they put us to sleep if we are suffering?”: La Nada and the desire for euthanasia among institutionalized older adults in Peru

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
wiley   +1 more source