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Journal of the American Medical Association, 1908 Pellagra was first described by Gasper Casal in 1750, under the name of"mal de la rosa,"and since then has been found to be prevalent in many countries. It is said that there were fully 100,000 cases in Italy in 1905, and at least 3,000 of these were in the lunatic asylums.
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"Poverty or Ignorance?" The Challenge of Social Diseases in Bukovina around 1900 [PDF]
Codrul Cosminului, 2017 One of the great challenges of the transition to the 1900s was the state of health of the inhabitants of Bukovina. Facing with all sorts of clinical cases, the physicians have tried to understand their mechanisms, identifying at the same time the ...
Harieta Sabol
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Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract ‘I have to share a bathroom’, I had so often murmured, almost with shame, as if I personally had been found unworthy of a bathroom of my own. Barbara Pym, Excellent Women (1952) For a single woman of a certain age, living alone in postwar London, austerity was more than a set of political and economic imperatives.
Charlotte Charteris
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Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice during 1400–1800. The availability of a large database of homogeneous inequality measurements allows us to produce the most in‐depth study of the factors affecting inequality at the local level available thus far for any preindustrial society.
Guido Alfani +2 more
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Seeing Others as Objects: Perceptual Objectification & Affordances
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract In discussions of objectification, the use of visual language is ubiquitous. It is striking that the literature often talks about treating and seeing someone as an object in the same breath. Yet accounts of objectification focus on objectifying treatment and leave the notion of objectifying perception unexplained.
Paulina Sliwa, Tom McClelland
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Photosensitive disorders in HIV
Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine, 2017 Photosensitive disorders are common, affecting up to 5% of HIV-positive patients. HIV itself induces photosensitivity but photoaggravated drug reactions, porphyria cutanea tarda and nutritional disorders such as pellagra are also more common in patients ...
Karen Koch
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Choice Feminism and the Opt‐Out Phenomenon: Is It Possible to Speak of Free Will?
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this research was to question choice feminism in the light of the opt‐out phenomenon, through a thematic narrative analysis of the professional trajectories of five Brazilian women with university degrees. As a result of the research—and the main contribution to the advancement of knowledge in the field—it was found that although ...
Paula Furtado Hartmann de Queiroz Monteiro +3 more
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Pellagra in patient with schizophrenia: a case report and review of literature
Archives of Mental Health, 2013 Background: Pellagra, called the disease of 4D'S- dermatitis, diarrhoea, dementia and death, is seen in patients of chronic alcohol dependence, mal absorption syndrome, and psychiatric illnesses like schizophrenia.
Jaya Madhuri Mothukuri +2 more
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Stitching Serenity: Exploring Theories of Well‐Being Through Embroidery
International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates how embroidery as a tactile form of inquiry can enhance students' understanding of well‐being concepts. Drawing on Bereiter's (2002, Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age) idea of naturalising abstract knowledge objects, we examine how students materialised their theoretical mind maps through embroidery.
Henna Lahti, Päivi Fernström
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