The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics
Anthropology 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
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Introducing medical students to cultural psychiatry: perspectives and reflections on developing and delivering an elective module. [PDF]
BJPsych BullJokinen T, Benachar N, Rahim A.
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Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim To explore parents' needs during end‐of‐life decision‐making and to understand their experiences in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) following the death of their child. Methods This observational, retrospective study was conducted in the NICU of a tertiary‐level hospital.
Ana Morillo Palomo +3 more
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Reproductive technology's animal unconscious: multispecies motherhood and humanimal horror. [PDF]
Med HumanitWalton G, O'Key D.
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Frayed Rope and Resilient Threads: Fijian Healthcare and the COVID‐19 Pandemic
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In April 2021, Fiji faced international scrutiny due to ‘horrific’ hospital conditions, including staff and patients lacking food, non‐operational operating theatres, and critical shortages of beds, medicine, and equipment. After successfully avoiding a major outbreak in 2020, a sudden surge in COVID‐19 cases in 2021 overwhelmed the public ...
Sharon McLennan +3 more
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Scientific objectivity and social mores: Paternity testing, illegitimacy and misogyny in Constance Pascal's 'La Goutte de Sang' (1935-1936). [PDF]
Hist PsychiatryGordon F.
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A Farewell to Arms… Manufacturing: Learning From a Landmine Producer Who Became a Deminer
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Certain industries—labeled “dirty,” “sinful,” “stigmatized,” or “controversial”—are under public scrutiny because of the ethical, social, and environmental concerns that they raise. Previous research has typically focused on the industry or organizational level of analysis, examining how companies in controversial industries can enhance their ...
Marco Guerci, Luca Carollo
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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities
Journal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022 ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
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How the sausage is made: Testing the effectiveness of an informative video in promoting sustainable food consumption. [PDF]
Sci RepKramer LA, Landry P.
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Personalized Patient Preference Predictor (P4) has been proposed as an AI tool to aid surrogate decision‐making when incapacitated patients lack advance directives. Unlike population‐level Patient Preference Predictors (PPPs), which infer preferences from demographic correlations, P4s fine‐tune large language models (LLMs) on a patient's ...
Beatrice Marchegiani
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