Does Proactivity Affect Insurance Solidarity and Individual Responsibility?
ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, the insurance industry has been experimenting with technological innovations that deeply affect its business model and social function. This article explores the use of digital technologies to monitor policyholders' behaviour and personalise their insurance coverage.
Alberto Cevolini, Elena Esposito
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Barbara S Bowers (ed.), The medieval hospital and medical practice, AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, Science and Art, vol. 3, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2007, pp. xiv, 258, £55.00, $99.95 (hardback 978-0-7546-5110-9). [PDF]
Carole Rawcliffe
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Early Medieval World (Chapter 2 of World History, A Short, Visual Introduction)
The fifth through the tenth centuries was a period of significant transformation for Europe. As a result of the Germanic invasions and the collapse of the economy, the last Roman Emperor in the West, Romulus Augustulus (475-76), was deposed in 476.
Corning, Caitlin
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Climate Moralities Offset: A Case of Formative Voluntary Carbon Markets
ABSTRACT This article contributes to sociological scholarship on climate change by examining the development of the voluntary carbon offset market in Finland. While intended to address the collective challenge of climate change, voluntary carbon offsetting has faced criticism for commodifying emissions and shifting responsibility to specific actors ...
Tomi Lehtimäki+4 more
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C M Woolgar, D Serjeantson, and T Waldron (eds), Food in medieval England: diet and nutrition, Medieval History and Archaeology, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. xv, 347, £55.00 (hardback 978-0-19-927349-2). [PDF]
Victoria Sweet
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Intellectual Solidarity and Reflexive Dislocation: Sociology in the Age of Global Authoritarianism
ABSTRACT This article contributes to current debates on the ethics of critical scholarship in an era of authoritarian consolidation and institutional erosion. It introduces intellectual solidarity as an ethical stance and reflexive dislocation as a methodological practice that together offer a grounded response to the complicities and constraints of ...
Salvador Santino Regilme
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Archaeogenetics reveals fine-scale genetic continuity and patterns of kinship and health in medieval Finland. [PDF]
Nordfors U+9 more
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Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia: History, Community, and Messianism. By Nina Caputo [PDF]
Patrick Madigan
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The history of entrepreneurship: Medieval origins of a modern phenomenon
Mark C. Casson, C. Casson
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