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Penile self-mutilation preceded by bizarre delusions: two case reports

open access: yesJournal of Medical Case Reports, 2014
IntroductionGenital self-mutilation is listed as a symptom of borderline personality disorder. The type of injury varies from simple skin laceration to total amputation of the penis and testicles.
Youssef Kharbach   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Understanding Interactions Between Sustainable Development Goals Within and Between Policy Programmes: The Case of Kenya's Dairy Sector

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving Agenda 2030 depends on addressing interactions between the sustainable development goals (SDGs). In this paper, we conceptualize SDG interactions as synergies or trade‐offs, incoming or outgoing, and internal or external, and analyze how SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) interacts with other SDGs within and across policy programmes that support ...
Annita Jepchirchir Kirwa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self-inflicted injury: An attempt of autoglossectomy !!!

open access: yesJournal of Indian Academy of Oral Medicine and Radiology, 2011
Teeth are considered as strongest, functional and unique organs of the body. In some situations, they act as injurious agents especially among the individuals with psychotic state.
S V Ravindra   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Disentangling the complex association between female genital cutting and HIV among Kenyan women [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Female genital cutting (FGC) is a widespread cultural practice in Africa and the Middle East, with a number of potential adverse health consequences for women.
Baltazar   +7 more
core   +2 more sources

Gender, Social Reproduction and the Construction of Capabilities for Social Sustainability of Agriculture: A Relational Approach

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers' capabilities, a core component of social sustainability, have been largely neglected in sustainable agriculture discourse. Using a relational approach to capabilities and autonomy, this study explores how women farmers translate the opportunity of agricultural innovation into their valued outcomes, and which factors shape their ...
Dawn D. Cheong, Bettina Bock
wiley   +1 more source

MEDICAL, LEGAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS TO DIAGNOSE SELFMUTILATION, IMITATING DELIBERATE ACUTE SURGICAL PATHOLOGY. CLINICAL CASE

open access: yesКреативная хирургия и онкология, 2017
Introduction. To date, in penal institutions of the Russian Federation annually there are not less than 10000 accurately registered facts of self-mutilation, causing immediate or delayed medical care in terms of surgical hospital.
Andrey V. Vasilchenko, Albert M. Gareev
doaj   +1 more source

Operationalizing the Metaverse for Urban Sustainability: Evidence From an Expert Panel and the Seoul Metaverse City Case Study

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smart cities and urban digital twins have fostered the emergence of immersive environments, such as the metaverse. While contemporary scholarlship has increasingly examined the integration of the metaverse within smart city infrastructures, the critical nexus between urban sustainability and the metaverse remains largely under‐researched. This
Jose Manuel Diaz‐Sarachaga   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Playground of gender : cross-dressing and self-mutilation as negation of gender identity in Tanja Duckers’s Spielzone (1999) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Although it is an outstanding example of writing life as negotiation of gender roles as well as exploration of the body as site of identity constructs, Tanja Dückers’s novel Spielzone, published in 1999, has not yet received the critical attention it ...
Dautel, Katrin
core  

Autopsy, deathways, and intercultural healthcare in the southern Peruvian Andes Autopsie, pratiques mortuaires et soins de santé interculturels dans le sud des Andes péruviennes

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
wiley   +1 more source

Copeptin levels and blood lipid profile in borderline patients with or without self-mutilation

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Psychiatry, 2016
Purpose: Self-mutilation, known as self-harming behaviour of an individual without the intention of suicide, is commonly observed in individuals with borderline personality disorder.
Sevda Korkmaz   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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