Plastics and labor: The case of disposable medical plastics
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Plastics are ubiquitous in the contemporary practice of medicine, where they are tied to notions of hygiene and quality of care. However, when plastics first infiltrated global medical practice, they did so because of considerations related to patient comfort and durability.
Gauri Pathak
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Brief mindfulness meditation increases risk-taking behavior. [PDF]
Sci RepTan LBG, Golubickis M, Macrae CN.
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The engaged action hypothesis: Explaining the merits of external focus cues
Mind &Language, EarlyView.The attentional focus effect—the theory that focusing on the body during skilled tasks leads to suboptimal results relative to focusing externally—is well established, but it is not known why it holds. The most widely cited explanation is the constrained action hypothesis: Focusing on the body interferes with beneficial automatic motor programs.
Barbara Montero, John Toner
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Feasibility and Acceptability of Transcendental Meditation for Indian Healthcare Professionals in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial. [PDF]
CureusNiraj S, Niraj G, Naithani R.
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Deep dialogism, inner voices, and mental health
Mind &Language, EarlyView.The idea that cognition involves dialogic interchange between mutually influencing “voices” has long featured in psychology and philosophy. While dialogic structure is most explicit in inner speech, some authors have argued that other types of mental activity can be (or always are) dialogic. We introduce two dimensions of dialogism, strength and depth,
Sofiia Rappe, Sam Wilkinson
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The Experience of Shared Meditation Involving People With Cancer, Health Professionals and Third Persons: A Qualitative Focus-Group Study. [PDF]
Integr Cancer TherPrevost V +6 more
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Self-Soothing Touch Reduces Momentary Stress, Fatigue, and Loneliness Comparable to Brief Meditation: A Randomised Controlled Trial. [PDF]
Stress HealthMaier F +3 more
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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