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Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Historica, 2020 Celem autora artykułu była interpretacja prowadzonych w epoce wczesnej nowożytności dyskursów na temat czarostwa i chorób psychicznych z punktu widzenia procesów ekskluzji i inkluzji jako mechanizmów regulujących dynamikę społeczną w określonych ...
Igor Kąkolewski
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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Death and melancholia in Hamlet, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet [PDF]
, 2019 This thesis analyzes the effects of love and melancholia on male and female characters along with their responses to melancholia which fluctuate among choler, revenge, murder, suicide, homicide, madness, never-ending mourning, and lovesickness in Hamlet,
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Toward a Politics of (In)Fertility: Reproductive Debility in Africa
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa has some of the highest estimated rates of infertility or involuntary childlessness in the world, leading epidemiologists to refer to parts of the region as the “infertility belt.” The medicalization of infertility and the situating of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) as the treatment for infertility have siphoned ...
Tessa Moll
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Melancholia and the search for the lost object in Farah’s Maps
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2017 Maps, given its intriguing narrative thrusts and multi-axial thematic concerns, is arguably the most studied or analysed of Nur- rudin Farah's nine prose fictions.
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The Impact of Loss and Alienation in English Language Learners
Radical Teacher, 2021 Educational institutions have the capacity to support immigrant students and English Language Learners through their emotional struggles with racial melancholia, dissociation, and cultural assimilation by utilizing validating curricula that promotes ...
Miguel Abrantes Antunes
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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From Melancholia to Depression [PDF]
, 2021 This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness into a modern biomedical mood disorder, paving the way for the ...
Jansson, Åsa
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Spinoza on Humans as Social Animals
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Spinoza repeatedly suggests that humans are set apart from other animals by their rational and moral abilities. Yet he disparages the traditional definition of the human as a ‘rational animal’ and several of his other views suggest that these abilities are not sufficient by themselves to characterize human nature.
Ruben Noorloos
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A Video-Based Facial Behaviour Analysis Approach to Melancholia
, 2017 Recent years have seen a lot of activity in affective computing for automated analysis of depression. However, no research has so far directly evaluated the performance of facial behavioural analysis methods in classifying different subtypes of ...
BHATIA, Shalini +9 more
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