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The Harmful Traditional Practice of Breast Ironing in Cameroon, Africa. [PDF]
, 2017 This article will examine the harmful traditional practice of breast ironing, a common occurrence in Cameroon. Breast ironing affects approximately one in every four adolescent girls in Cameroon and is typically performed by the mother of the child who ...
Pearsell, Rachel
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Lady Anne Kerr: From the Rise of International Conference Interpreting to the Whitlam Dismissal
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.Before Anne Robson (née Taggart) became the second Lady Kerr upon marrying governor‐general John Kerr in 1975, she had an international career of some 30 years working as a French to English interpreter and consultant at over 30 national and international conferences and became the first Australian elected to the International Association of Conference
Alexis Bergantz
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Unpacking the role of in‐group bias in US public opinion on human rights violations
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Which actor identities and social and political cleavages drive public opinion on human rights violations? While in‐group bias is known to influence public responses to government abuses, the relative impact of different identity characteristics has not been directly tested.
Rebecca Cordell
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Complementary Therapies for Treating Survivors of Torture
Refuge, 2004 The long-term consequences of torture are complex, multidimensional, and pervasive. Torture leaves indelible scars in the mind, body, and cultural world of survivors, compromising their health and well-being.
Claudia María Vargas +2 more
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Ego and Its Fissures, Narrative and Its Discontents [PDF]
, 2000 Zadanie pt. „Digitalizacja i udostępnienie w Cyfrowym Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego kolekcji czasopism naukowych wydawanych przez Uniwersytet Łódzki” nr 885/P-DUN/2014 dofinansowane zostało ze środków MNiSW w ramach działalności upowszechniającej ...
Elmore, Grainne
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Injustice, relational violence, and the foster system
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Political theorists have not paid sustained attention to the foster system or treated it as a political institution. Despite this, scholars and social movement advocates have identified the system as a site of social and political injustice. This paper develops an account of racial, class, and relational injustice in the contemporary US foster
Emma Ebowe
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Torture on Goli Otok through the prism of psychology in the works of Petar Kostić [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2020 The subject of this research is the scientific contribution of the psychologist Petar Kostić, as an objective scientist, in the analysis and interpretation of the methodology of torture in the camp for political prisoners on Goli Otok, through the prism ...
Krstić Miroslav Ž. +1 more
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Psychological factors in exceptional, extreme and torturous environments [PDF]
Extreme Physiology & Medicine, 2016 Our cognitive system has adapted to support goal-directed behaviour within a normal environment. An abnormal environment is one to which we are not optimally adapted but can accommodate through the development of coping strategies. These abnormal environments can be 'exceptional', e.g., polar base, space station, submarine, prison, intensive care unit,
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Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, EarlyView.Self‐reported dyspareunia one year after an obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASI) is less common among overweight and obese women than in normal weight. The risk for anal incontinence does not differ between the BMI groups one year after an OASI, while the risk for UI increases with increasing BMI.
Linda Hjertberg +3 more
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“The Shadow of Torture: Debating US Transgressions in Military Interventions, 1899-2008 (Book Review)” by Katrin Dauenhauer & “America in the Philippines, 1899-1902. The First Torture Scandal (Book Review)” by Christopher J. Einolf [PDF]
, 2016 Review of Torpedo: Inventing the Military-Industrial Complex in the United States and Great Britain by Katherine C. Epstein Review of The Shadow of Torture: Debating US Transgressions in Military Interventions, 1899-2008 by Katrin ...
Schumacher, Frank
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