What to Do When You Can't Transfuse: Update on Optimizing Outcomes for Jehovah's Witness Patients. [PDF]
Hematol RepAbib A, Hensley NB, Resar LMS, Frank SM.
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“Touching the Tarmac”: Conjuring the Urban Frontier on a Remote Periphery
Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Anthropologists have demonstrated how the creation of land markets as “frontiers” for global capital requires practices of “conjuring”—the narrative construction of place as desirable for large‐scale investment. This article emphasizes the contingency of this conjuring process in an urbanizing Kenya where land‐selling companies have emerged to
Peter Lockwood
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Forced marriage, divorce, and the ecology of marital self-determination: findings from research with Orthodox Jews in New York. [PDF]
SSM Ment HealthHirsch JS +6 more
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Why Does Individualism Affect Economic Development: Is It Values, Policies, or Institutions?
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A substantial body of literature highlights the positive roles of individualism and economic freedom in fostering prosperity, and recent work links the two. This paper disentangles their contributions to economic development. In cross‐country data, we show that both are independently associated with per capita income, even after extensive ...
Lewis S. Davis +1 more
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Judicial substitute consent for medical procedures in adults lacking decision-making capacity: a five-year experience from a Polish tertiary hospital. [PDF]
BMC Med EthicsSekuła M, Dubaj M, Patryn R.
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What Program for Love in the 21st Century? Thinking With and Beyond Luhmann
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT From a sociological perspective, the paper examines how normative frameworks for intimate relationships have changed since the publication of Luhmann's Love as Passion (1982). Building on Luhmann's notion of a program for love, we discuss his claim that late 20th century love semantics were organized around a program of understanding. We argue
Chiara Piazzesi, Martin Blais
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Maya Medicine: An Analysis of the Maya Concept of the Cardiovascular System. [PDF]
Methodist Debakey Cardiovasc JOlivero JJ, Eknoyan G.
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Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
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Barriers to healthcare and justice for sexual and gender-based violence survivors in Sierra Leone: A gender-integrated socio-ecological analysis. [PDF]
Arch Public HealthOlson RM +6 more
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Constructing Difference: Maternal Boundary‐Work in Science‐Based and Natural Mom Groups on Facebook
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Boundary‐work describes the activities of social groups as they seek to differentiate themselves from others to establish credibility, authority, or to protect their interests. While a growing body of literature explores occupational boundary‐work in health care, limited research has focused on how lay actors practice boundary‐work online.
Darryn DiFrancesco
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