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Negotiating contested spaces and places: Narratives of social suffering and resistance in racialized Cape Town communities

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study employs a schizocartographic approach to explore community narratives of space, memory, and violence in Kraaifontein, Cape Town. Through participants' accounts, ordinary places—gardens, shops, blocks, sports grounds, and streets—emerge as ambivalent geographies where trauma, resilience, and belonging intersect.
Guido Veronese   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Young Muslim Women Living with Asthma in Denmark: A Link between Religion and Self-Efficacy

open access: yesPharmacy, 2018
Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease that can be controlled with appropriate medicinal treatment. Adherence to pharmacological treatment is therefore critical.
Louise C. Druedahl   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

When can Muslims withdraw or withhold life support? A narrative review of Islamic juridical rulings

open access: yesGlobal Bioethics, 2020
When it is ethically justifiable to stop medical treatment? For many Muslim patients, families, and clinicians this ethical question remains a challenging one as Islamic ethico-legal guidance on such matters remains scattered and difficult to interpret ...
Afshan Mohiuddin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Community partner perspectives on community‐academic health research partnerships with Black American communities: A scoping review

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Evaluations of community‐engaged research (CEnR) typically emphasize health outcomes rather than the partnership processes that contribute to intervention effectiveness. This scoping review synthesized community partner‐identified strategies for successful community‐academic health research partnerships with Black American communities and ...
Kaylyn A. Garcia   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mary the Physician: Women, Religion and Medicine in the Middle Ages

open access: yes, 2020
Current preoccupations with the body have led to a growing interest in the intersections between religion, literature and the history of medicine, and, more specifically, how they converge within a given culture.
Watt, D
core  

Philosophical Perspectives on Medicine and Religion

open access: yes, 2017
In this chapter, I survey the literature concerning selected metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical issues surrounding the intersection of spirituality and religion with medicine.
James A. Marcum
core   +1 more source

Social Determinants of Health and Health‐Related Quality of Life: The Potential Mediating Role of Social Activities, Access to Medical Services, and Access to Social Services

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medical Pluralism in the Coronavirus Epidemic: A Study of Controversy over Islamic Medicine [PDF]

open access: yesمسائل اجتماعی ایران, 2021
Medical pluralism refers to the coexistence of different medical traditions in a society, and on this basis, alternative and complementary medicine have found their way into the health care systems of different countries.
simin kazemi
doaj  

Religion, spirituality, health and medicine: Why should Indian physicians care? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Religion, spirituality, health and medicine have common roots in the conceptual framework of relationship amongst human beings, nature and God. Of late, there has been a surge in interest in understanding the interplay of religion, spirituality, health ...
Chattopadhyay, S.
core   +1 more source

The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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