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Johannesburg has been described variously as an elusive, genre-less, blank, even self-cannibalizing city. Without refusing such rhetorical play, this article seeks to secure a mode of urban analysis that attends to the city’s material losses as well as ...
Ed Charlton
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Melancholy or mahjong? Diversity, frequency, type, and rural-urban divide of social participation and depression in middle- and old-aged Chinese: A fixed-effects analysis [PDF]
Ruoxi Wang+5 more
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‘Melancholy can be overwhelmed only by melancholy.’ Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy [PDF]
Whilst the above 17th Century view of what we would now term melancholic depression may be pessimistic, it does remind us of how the concept and treatments for depression have changed over time.The...
Sameer Jauhar, Allan H. Young
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CONSOLATIONS FOR MELANCHOLY IN RENAISSANCE HUMANISM [PDF]
This essay explores the role of melancholy within the consolatoryliterature of Renaissance humanism. It begins (sections I-II) with a summary of thethemes and methods of humanist consolationes and their classical models, with particularattention to their
Angus GOWLAND
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Introduction. Shaping modernity in the first third of the twentieth century is tied to the private worldview of the person of this era in which the main metaphor of the individual perception of “their time” is melancholy.
D. V. Andreenko
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Melancholy as Responding to Reasons
This paper explores the nature and value of melancholy and the rationality of being in such a state. I defend a view of melancholy as a highly complex mood-like state.
M. S. Sagdahl
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Educators' positive practices with refugee pupils at two schools in England
Abstract Extensive evidence indicates that education is an integral part of the settling in process for refugee and asylum‐seeking children. Furthermore, it has been suggested that positive teaching practice with refugee pupils should be asset‐based and holistic in nature. The present study examines educators' positive practices with refugee pupils and
Caitlin M. Prentice
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Abstract Whatever the circumstances, the separation of infants from their mothers at birth is a traumatic experience for all concerned. The paper reports on a study designed to improve practice in this highly sensitive area. An analysis of data collected through semi‐structured interviews with 38 mothers who had experienced removal at birth identified ...
Claire Mason+2 more
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A User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy (first published in 1621) as a guide to one of the most perplexing, elusive, attractive, and afflicting diseases of the Renaissance.
M. Lund
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Reordering the machinery of participation with young people
Abstract In this article, we reflect on our ongoing work that attempts to redistribute the agenda‐setting powers of researchers, research funders and the complex of private and public partnerships in the biomedical sciences. Despite calls for diversification, the current landscape is dominated by a traditional medical habitus that prioritises discovery
Hannah Cowan+2 more
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