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Contemporary Representations of the Female Body: Consumerism and the Normative Discourse of Beauty [PDF]
, 2015 In the context of the perpetual reproduction of consumerism in contemporary western societies, the varied and often contradictory principles of third wave feminism have been misunderstood or redefined by the dominant economic discourse of the markets ...
Dimulescu, Venera
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Of Carcasses and Christ: Rereading the Repugnant Ecological Other
Journal of Religious Ethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay claims that a collection of hunting and fishing devotionals provincializes a common trope in environmental literatures: the figure of the repugnantly anti‐ecological conservative Protestant. A close reading of these texts reveals their authors’ and ideal audiences’ extensive knowledge of land and animal minds, which deflates their ...
Colin B. Weaver
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Allogeneic Stem Cells Alter Gene Expression and Improve Healing of Distal Limb Wounds in Horses. [PDF]
, 2017 Distal extremity wounds are a significant clinical problem in horses and humans and may benefit from mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy. This study evaluated the effects of direct wound treatment with allogeneic stem cells, in terms of gross, histologic,
Aristizobal, Fabio A +11 more
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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
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Public Health Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives This study aimed to evaluate a mental health training process that included the implementation of the interRAI Self‐Reported Assessment for Mental Health (SAMH) tool among Community Health Agents (CHAs), to improve knowledge of mental health issues, as well as to assess the tool's feasibility and acceptability.
Matheus R. Dornelles +5 more
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Comparative Study of Suicide Methods During 1991-2008 in the Ulaanbaatar Community
Central Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2016 Objectives: The purpose of our study is to compare the prevalence and the methods used for fatal suicidal behaviors among the population in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Oyunsuren Davaasuren +2 more
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Female Genital Self-Image in Women With and Without Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia [PDF]
, 2020 A.A. Rouzi +4 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The household book is a particular feature of the landscape of manuscript production post‐1475, and is particularly associated with women. Compiling manuscript household books in a post‐print landscape involved a specific kind of dialogue between the two material forms.
Carrie Griffin
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Quantifying Mozambique's Peace Dividend: An Application of the Synthetic Control Method
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using the synthetic control method and data from 20 African countries, this study quantifies the peace dividend in Mozambique, a country that experienced over 15 years of civil war. More specifically, we use data from 1977 to 2018 to investigate whether the end of the civil war in Mozambique in 1992 brought significant benefits to the country ...
Tendai Gwatidzo, Aldo Sitoe, Busani Moyo
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, 2017 Although self mutilation is not particularly limited to a certain age or gender, but whenever people think of self mutilation or self harm, they often get an image of a teenage girl cutting herself, but it is more commonly found in adults than many realize. Self mutilation is an act of deliberately inflicting one’s own body with non-lethal bodily harm,
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