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Dealing with complicity in fieldwork: Reflections on studying genetic research in Pakistan

open access: yesSociology of Health &Illness, Volume 44, Issue S1, Page 41-56, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Health‐related ethnography undertaken in a context marked by social inequalities and colonial legacies requires critical attention to power imbalances in the fieldwork. In this paper, I draw on my own experiences from studying genetic research in Pakistan.
Zainab Afshan Sheikh
wiley   +1 more source

Euthanasia and assisted suicide in patients with personality disorders: a review of current practice and challenges

open access: yesBorderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 2020
Background Over the last two decades an increasing number of countries have legalized euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) leading to considerable debate over the inherent ethical dilemmas.
Lars Mehlum   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Deep Phenotyping of the Broader Autism Phenotype in Epilepsy: A Transdiagnostic Marker of Epilepsy and Autism Spectrum Disorder

open access: yesAnnals of the Child Neurology Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective We conducted deep and minimal phenotyping of the broader autism phenotype (BAP) in people with epilepsy (PWE) and compared its expression with published rates in the general population and relatives of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD‐relatives).
Annie E. Richard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From preventive eugenics to slippery eugenics: Population control and contemporary sterilisations targeted to indigenous peoples in Mexico

open access: yesSociology of Health &Illness, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 128-144, January 2023., 2023
Abstract Eugenic ideas in Mexico were popularised after the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) as a way of ‘modernising’ and ‘civilising’ the nation. As a result, eugenic ideas were able to linger and be maintained through different departments, institutions, and individuals from all disciplines. After eugenics was considered a pseudoscience, its practices
R. Sanchez‐Rivera
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Public Attitudes towards Euthanasia in Adults and Physician-Assisted Death in Neonates in Austria: A National Survey.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
BackgroundEuthanasia remains a controversial topic in both public discourses and legislation. Although some determinants of acceptance of euthanasia and physician-assisted death have been identified in previous studies, there is still a shortage of ...
Erwin Stolz   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assisted Suicide Heads to Colorado

open access: yesVoices in Bioethics, 2017
While the outcome of our recent election cycle has represented a country with polarized viewpoints of America’s future policies, one ballot initiative has emerged as a force of consensus.
Tyler Cosmer
doaj   +1 more source

Complicating cure: How Australian criminal law shapes imagined post‐hepatitis C futures

open access: yesSociology of Health &Illness, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 179-195, January 2023., 2023
Abstract In recent years, highly tolerable and effective drugs have emerged promising a radical new ‘post‐hepatitis C’ world. Optimism about medical cure potentially overlooks discrimination and stigma associated with hepatitis C and injecting drug use.
Kate Seear   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Argumenty w sporze o legalizację eutanazji i wspomaganego samobójstwa. Część I

open access: yesAnaliza i Egzystencja, 2018
ARGUMENTS IN THE DISPUTE OVER LEGALIZING EUTHANASIA AND PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE – PART I The aim of this article is to present the arguments used in the debate on the legalization of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.
Bogna Wach
doaj   +1 more source

A Qualitative Study of the Lived Treatment Experiences of Women With an Eating Disorder and Comorbid Borderline Personality Disorder

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Having both an eating disorder (ED) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with heightened clinical complexity, high levels of distress, and challenges in treatment. This study sought to qualitatively investigate the experiences of women with an ED and comorbid BPD as they undergo ED treatment, aiming to better ...
Alexia E. Miller   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Suicide Is Not Suicide: Self-induced Morbidity and Mortality in the General Hospital

open access: yesRambam Maimonides Medical Journal, 2015
Suicidal phenomena in the general hospital can take a variety of forms that can be parsed by taking into account whether or not the patient 1) intended to hasten death, and 2) included collaborators, including family and health care providers, in the ...
J. Michael Bostwick
doaj   +1 more source

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