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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
wiley   +1 more source

What It Was Like, What Happened, What It Is Like Now: Liminal Spaces and the Pedagogy of Recovery

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Addiction recovery is frequently interpreted through biomedical or punitive frameworks that overlook its cultural, ritual, and pedagogical dimensions. This article offers a theoretical and interpretive analysis of peer‐led, meeting‐based recovery communities in North America, particularly those organized around mutual‐aid traditions such as ...
Patrick L. Pellett
wiley   +1 more source

Routine active case finding in Nigerian penitentiary institutions: comparing yields from digital X-ray with CAD4TB and WHO 4-symptom screening. [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Infect Dis
Chukwuogo O   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fania (Fanny) Kaplan and the attempted assassination of Vladimir Lenin: Ophthalmologic considerations

open access: yesActa Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Fania (Fanny) Kaplan (1890–1918), who was reportedly visually impaired, confessed to the attempted assassination of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) in 1918 by shooting him with a pistol. The precise nature of her visual loss is unknown and raises doubts about whether she had sufficient visual function to perform the act ...
Stephen G. Schwartz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Systematic review of the tuberculosis burden in prisons: Regional patterns and gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean. [PDF]

open access: yesGlob Epidemiol
Perea-Jacobo R   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

What Is Space Bioethics?

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Classical bioethics examines moral issues in terrestrial medicine and the life sciences. According to Konrad Szocik, space bioethics merely relocates those questions to harsher environments. We argue that this view is incomplete: space bioethics is a genuinely original domain.
Maurizio Balistreri
wiley   +1 more source

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