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From Querulous to Suicidal: Self-immolation in Public Places as a Symbolic Response to the Feeling of Injustice [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Aim: This paper sheds light on the context that leads some querulous patients to self-immolate in front of, or into, public buildings (e.g., tribunals, city halls, and employment agencies).Method: The author defines paranoid querulousness.
Benjamin T. Lévy +3 more
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A Cry for Help and Protest: Self-Immolation in Young Kurdish Iraqi Women -A Qualitative Study [PDF]
International Journal of Community Based Nursing and Midwifery, 2018 Background: Suicide is a major psychiatric emergency that has always been a topic of great interest to researchers. Self-immolation is a heinous suicide method that is common in Eastern societies.
Pakestan Mohammad Amin +2 more
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Being Through Doing: The Self-Immolation of an Asylum Seeker in Switzerland [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2018 In April 2016, Armin,1 an asylum seeker in a village of Switzerland, set himself alight in the public square of the town, one of a few cases reported across Europe.
Gail Womersley, Laure Kloetzer
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Burns Open, 2021 Objective: Given the up to 70% fatality rate of self-immolation, with tragic consequences for survivors, proposals have been made for a global task force to prevent self-immolation.
Yasuhito Irie +6 more
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Self-Immolation in Early Indian Buddhism
The Journal of Indian and Asian Studies, 2020 Self-immolation refers to ascetic Buddhist practices that include the voluntary termination of one’s life or the offering of parts of one’s body usually by setting oneself ablaze.
HAN-SANG KIM
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Epidemiology of cause and burn pattern in self-immolated patients during 2014-2020 [PDF]
Health Science Monitor, 2023 Background & Aims: Lots of suicides leading to death in Iran are related to self-immolation. This study aimed to evaluate the cause and burn patterns in self-immolated patients referred to Shahid Motahari Trauma and Burn Hospital in Tehran, Iran ...
Siamak Soltani +4 more
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Self-immolative dendron hydrogels
Chemical Communications, 2021 Self-immolative dendron hydrogels can be degraded on demand and exhibit tunable properties and degradation rates.
Karanpreet Gill +2 more
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Tetrazine‐Responsive Self‐immolative Linkers [PDF]
ChemBioChem, 2016 AbstractMolecules that undergo activation or modulation following the addition of benign external small‐molecule chemical stimuli have numerous applications. Here, we report the highly efficient “decaging” of a variety of moieties by activation of a “self‐immolative” linker, by application of water‐soluble and stable tetrazine, including the controlled
Neumann, Kevin +6 more
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Thermoresponsive Self-Immolative Polyglyoxylamides
Biomacromolecules, 2020 Thermoresponsive polymers with lower critical solution temperatures (LCSTs) are of significant interest for a wide range of applications from sensors to drug delivery vehicles. However, the most widely investigated LCST polymers have nondegradable backbones, limiting their applications in vivo or in the environment.
Amir Rabiee Kenaree +3 more
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SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC STUDY OF SELF-IMMOLATION IN KABUL
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Medicine, 2020 Self-immolation is a dangerous method of committing suicide which is prevalent in individuals who attempt to escape a stressful situation and is considered a significant social and medical disorder in both the economically developed and developing ...
М.А. Paigham, Т.М. Anwari
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