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“We always heal like this”: Illness management and identity expression in Latin American migrants in Spain

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The following article seeks to explore and analyze the use of lay and traditional medicines among Latin migrants in Spain, and the way in which these forms of treatment are accompanied by identity discourses and collective representations.
Muriel Lamarque
wiley   +1 more source

“Why can't they put us to sleep if we are suffering?”: La Nada and the desire for euthanasia among institutionalized older adults in Peru

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, I examine how institutionalized older adults in Peru articulate suffering through the idiom of la nada—“nothingness”—and how this shapes desires for euthanasia. Moving from close ethnography of bodies in space and time to structural and ethical discourses on euthanasia, I argue that calls for euthanasia arise not only from ...
Magdalena Zegarra Chiappori
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring nurse practitioners' views on the key elements shaping their professional identities within interspecialty practice: A Q methodology study

open access: yesMedical Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Nurse practitioners (NPs) with their boundary‐spanning roles bridging gaps between nurses' and physicians' practices are equipped to address emerging demands for team‐based care. Despite their significance, the different perspectives reflecting their understanding of what it takes to practice within this tactical yet highly ...
Yu‐Che Chang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Deterministic Fetal Programming: Intrauterine Exposures and the Multifactorial Origins of Adiposity

open access: yesObesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Excess adiposity is not a recently developed problem but has existed since at least the upper Paleolithic, allowing evolutionary selection pressures to adapt the physiology of the pregnant woman and the feto‐placental unit for maternal and fetal protection.
Gernot Desoye   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Do Strikes and Lockouts Affect Applications to Danish Public Service Professional Education Programs? A Synthetic Control Analysis

open access: yesPublic Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With fewer young people entering public service, public employers and the corresponding trade unions aim at signaling that they offer attractive working conditions. However, in the struggle for attractive conditions, labor market conflicts occur between public employers and public sector unions when bargains fail. According to signaling theory,
Christian Heide, Florian Keppeler
wiley   +1 more source

What's Wrong With Self‐Censorship?

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, discourse on freedom of speech has shifted away from exclusive focus on the state and towards societal threats to speech. Amidst this change, the notion of “self‐censorship” has gained increased prominence. Not only has self‐censorship emerged as a common reference point, several recent studies identify it as embodying a ...
Gideon Elford
wiley   +1 more source

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