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Caring for the institution: An ethnography of quality assurance policy in U.S. rural primary care

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on mixed‐methods, ethnographic research in a geographically isolated rural medical center in the upper midwestern United States, this paper explores the social implications of healthcare quality assurance policies highly reliant on managerial logics, including measurement and monitoring programs.
Chloe L. Warpinski
wiley   +1 more source

Border tuberculosis: Migrant tuberculosis screenings and the enactment of disease in the Indonesia–Malaysia migration corridor

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Documented migrant workers from Indonesia recruited for work in Malaysia need to undergo tuberculosis screenings before being issued work permits and visas. Centered on the production, circulation, and interpretation of chest X‐ray images, these screenings are shaped in concrete, practical ways by the demands of border control regulations ...
Jonathan Kraemer
wiley   +1 more source

India’s neglected tropical diseases

open access: yesPLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018
Peter J. Hotez, Ashish Damania
openaire   +4 more sources

Comparative evaluation of the attractiveness of new polyethylene screens versus West African tiny target for the control of tsetse flies

open access: yesMedical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
The material has no significant difference in captures (non‐shiny cotton‐polyester screens vs. the shiny polyethylene screens), but the vertical screen attracted significantly more G. tachinoides for each type of material. Full white horizontal screen was significantly lower than the reference WATT.
Ernest Wendemanegde Salou   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

DNA barcoding and geometric morphometry of tabanid flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) in Thailand and a new record of a Thai horse fly

open access: yesMedical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
Tabanus tenens identified in this study is a newly recorded species in Thailand. DNA barcoding using the cox1 gene identified tabanid species in the present study. WGM data from different sites served as a reference for species identification. Abstract Tabanid flies are gaining high medical and veterinary importance due to their role as a vector of ...
Nantatchaporn Klaiklueng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Occurrence and distribution of sarcoptic mange in wild Neotropical canids

open access: yesMedical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.
Sarcoptic mange affects most Neotropical canid species across multiple countries. It represents a widespread yet largely overlooked conservation threat with potential for cross‐species transmission. Coordinated monitoring and management efforts are needed to understand and mitigate its impacts. Abstract Sarcoptic mange, a contagious skin disease caused
Luan de Jesus Matos de Brito   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correction: Evaluation of the diagnostic accuracy of prototype rapid tests for human African trypanosomiasis. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2015
PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases Staff
doaj   +1 more source

Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
wiley   +1 more source

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