Boundary work in marketized parent-school relations: an insider autoethnography of teacher emotional labor in a Chinese international school. [PDF]
Yue Z, Shikun Z.
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Views from the Inside: Reflections on the Modern Hospital
Abstract There's a constant refrain in the press, on social media and from populist politicians that the NHS is dying on its feet. How accurate is this picture? This article takes a behind‐the‐scenes look at daily life in a modern, big city hospital. The Queen Elizabeth is now the biggest workplace in Birmingham.
Jon Bloomfield
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Institutional Ethnography of Teeth Whitening Industry: How Professional Power Becomes Commercial Power in Dentistry. [PDF]
Lala R, Robinson PG, Gibson BJ.
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A Crisis of Representation: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State
Abstract In this symposium contribution, we subject John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State to the scrutiny warranted by its contribution. While the book offers a rich categorisation of the myriad forms of mundane agency one can observe in the underbelly of the democratic state, we seek to extend the argument by situating it in some ...
Liam Stanley +2 more
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TCM practitioners' perspectives on AI-assisted <i>ad hoc</i> interpreting in China: a qualitative study. [PDF]
Geng B, Zhu S.
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This article analyses the ways characteristics associated with the ‘Schedule Tribe’ (‘ST’) category in India shape situated acts of relating to others with either deference or assumed superiority. Ethnography shows how within an indigenous Adivasi community the traits that determine identification within the group generate feelings of entitlement and ...
Thomas Herzmark
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The Balancing Act of Involving Relatives of Hospitalised Patients: A Qualitative Study of Attitudes, Expectations and Involvement Among Patients, Relatives and Healthcare Professionals. [PDF]
Pedersen MK +6 more
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Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma.
Sylvia Tidey
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A Triptych of Care: An Anthropological Interpretation of Morning Bed-Baths in Greek Intensive Care. [PDF]
Parissopoulos S +5 more
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Not Even Newton's Word: Authority and Resistance in the Royal Society Corpus1
Abstract This paper investigates the historical development of Isaac Newton's proposed distinction between mass and weight in the Principia Mathematica of 1687 and traces its fate in the scientific English of the Royal Society between 1700 and 1920.
Nina Haket
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