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Contesting repression in divided democracies: Can counternarratives reduce support for police violence?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Democracies often struggle to contain police violence, which undermines the rule of law and reproduces inequality by targeting marginalized citizens. Yet, scholars have shown that repressive policing enjoys considerable public support. Focusing on Brazil, we demonstrate that attitudes toward police violence mirror polarization between left ...
Yanilda María González, Natán Skigin
wiley   +1 more source

Political Animals: To Live & Die in More‐Than‐Human Worlds

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What does it mean to live—and therefore die—in a more‐than‐human world? This review essay explores that question through reflections on teaching Political Animals: Species, Class, Race, and Gender, an undergraduate course that introduces students to scholarship on human‐nonhuman relations.
Luísa Reis‐Castro
wiley   +1 more source

Equity and Respect in Maternal and Infant Healthcare—A Report From the 2025 Venice Forum

open access: yesActa Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To examine equity and respectful care for women and infants from five perspectives: the global context; economic issues; healthcare systems; legal and policy issues; opportunities to benefit from biomedical research. Methods Narrative review.
Mark Hanson   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shaping Future Children, Sex Selection, and “Normal” Human Capacities

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT If we think that parents have an obligation to have a healthy child then we need to know what counts as healthy, when male and female children are born with very different capacities. If we give up on the idea that our obligations to use technologies of genetic selection are discharged once we try to secure the birth of a healthy child, as ...
Robert Sparrow
wiley   +1 more source

Transhumanism Without Transindividuation in the Age Without Epochality: Stiegler, Vice, and Radical Human Enhancement

open access: yesBioethics, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Midwifery Care Studies: A Reflexive Methodology for a Practice‐Based Science

open access: yesBirth, EarlyView.
Introducing Midwifery Care Studies: a novel reflexive approach examining midwifery as practice‐based science. ABSTRACT Background Midwifery research is increasingly understood as shaped by the specific social, political, and historical contexts, with scientific practices actively co‐producing realities.
Annekatrin Skeide
wiley   +1 more source

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