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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
wiley   +1 more source

Misoprostol in the era of COVID-19: a love letter to the original medical abortion pill

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 2020
Ruvani T. Jayaweera, Heidi Moseson, Caitlin Gerdts   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wrongful Birth Claims and the Paradox of Parenting a Child with a Disability [PDF]

, 2018
“Wrongful birth” is a controversial medical malpractice claim raised by the mother of a child born with a disability against a medical professional whose failure to provide adequate prenatal information denied her the chance to abort.
Yakren, Sofia
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Phthalate Metabolite, Mono(2‐Ethyl‐5‐Hydroxyhexyl) Phthalate (MEHHP), Promotes Uterine‐Fibroid–Associated Phenotypes in Myometrial Stem Cell‐Derived 3D Organoids

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how phthalate exposure contributes to uterine fibroid (UF) development by studying the effects of the Mono‐(2‐ethyl‐5‐hydroxyhexyl) phthalate (MEHHP), a metabolite of Di(2‐ethylhexyl) phthalate, on myometrial stem cells (MMSCs).
Somayeh Vafaei, Mervat M. Omran, Qiwei Yang, Sandra Madueke‐Laveaux, Ami R. Zota, Ayman Al‐Hendy, Mohamed Ali   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Motivations for using misoprostol for abortion outside the formal healthcare system in Colombia: a qualitative study of women seeking postabortion care in Bogotá and the Coffee Axis

Reproductive Health
Background In 2006, a Constitutional Court ruling partially decriminalized abortion in Colombia, allowing the procedure in cases of rape, risk to the health or life of the woman, and fetal malformations incompatible with life.
Juliette Ortiz, Nakeisha Blades, Elena Prada   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ultrasound features in early pregnancy for predicting abnormal karyotype in first‐trimester miscarriage

Ultrasound in Obstetrics &Gynecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To investigate whether combining abnormal morphological features observed on ultrasound in live pregnancies that ended in a first‐trimester miscarriage can predict an abnormal karyotype. Methods This retrospective observational cohort study was conducted at the early‐pregnancy assessment unit at University College London Hospital ...
T. Setty, S. L. Kastora, T. Tellum, J. Farren, E. Jauniaux, D. Jurkovic   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Medicine as a Moral Art: The Hippocratic Philosophy of Herbert Ratner, M.D. [PDF]

, 1998
Riley, Patrick G.D.
core   +2 more sources

“For three of my four miscarriages I was at work…” Experiences of miscarriage, infertility and assisted fertility in veterinary workplaces

Veterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Miscarriage, infertility and assisted fertility (MIAF) can profoundly impact physical and mental health. The aims of this study were to investigate how veterinary professionals’ work environments and employers impacted their experiences of MIAF and to identify how workplace experiences of MIAF could be improved.
Jenny Stavisky, Natalie Scroggie, Abi Collinson, Zoe Belshaw   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lessons learned from developing and implementing digital health tools for self-managed abortion and sexual and reproductive healthcare in Canada, the United States, and Venezuela. [PDF]

Sex Reprod Health Matters, 2023
Luigi-Bravo G, Maria Ramirez A, Gerdts C, Gill R.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
wiley   +1 more source