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Habitual self‐mutilation in Japan [PDF]

open access: yesPsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 2004
Abstract  The purpose of the present study was to clarify the relationship between bulimic behavior, dissociative phenomenon and sexual/physical abuse histories in Japanese subjects with habitual self‐mutilation. Subjects consisted of 34 female outpatients who had cut their wrists or arms on more than 10 occasions.
Takaharu Azekawa   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Victorian Women and the Gendering of Mountaineering in the Alps

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gendered segregation of Victorian mountaineering, highlighting how societal norms sought to confine women to passive roles within the alpine landscape. As Elizabeth Le Blond declared, ‘there is no manlier sport in the world than mountaineering’, encapsulating the pervasive attitudes of the era.
William Bainbridge
wiley   +1 more source

Female Genital Mutilation: Exploring Strategies for Ending Ritualized Torture; Shaming, Blaming, and Utilizing the Convention against Torture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The intent of this article is to graphically describe female genital mutilation (FGM); discuss the background of FGM and its health, psychological, and social implications; propose some workable solutions to ending FGM; and raise the level of awareness ...
Broussard, Patricia A.
core   +2 more sources

Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Culture on Access to and Utilisation of Maternity Care Amongst Muslim Women in High‐Income Countries: A Qualitative Systematic Review

open access: yesBJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Global human migration has highlighted the need to provide culturally appropriate maternity care, delivered in accordance with the recipient's beliefs and practices. Objectives This review aims to examine the impact of culture on access, utilisation, and care delivery of care for Muslim women during pregnancy and postpartum through ...
Aljawharah Al‐Mubarak   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Automutilação devido à compressão da cauda eqüina em três cães e um gato Self-mutilation in three dogs and one cat with cauda equina compression

open access: yesCiência Rural, 1999
O presente trabalho relata a ocorrência de dermatite prurítica acral e automutilação da cauda e região genitocrural em três cães e um gato que sofriam compressão de raízes nervosas da cauda eqüina.
Cynthia Mary Gomes Lagedo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Debating medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) : learning from (policy) experiences across countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background: Although Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is internationally considered a harmful practice, it is increasingly being medicalized allegedly to reduce its negative health effects, and is thus suggested as a harm reduction strategy in ...
Barrett, Hazel   +4 more
core   +1 more source

From theory to practice: Protocol adaptations for swift victim identification in the forensic response to the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract The October 7, 2023, massacre in Israel posed unprecedented challenges for disaster victim identification (DVI), requiring adaptations to international forensic protocols to address extreme conditions, including active conflict, fragmented remains, and cultural and religious constraints.
Esi Sharon   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self-harm by severe glossal injury in schizophrenia

open access: yesIndustrial Psychiatry Journal, 2011
Self-mutilation, the deliberate destruction occurs in a variety of psychiatric disorders.Many methods of self-destructive behavior have been described in literature.
Pookala S Bhat, P K Pardal, M Diwakar
doaj   +1 more source

Ethnicity and deliberate self-injury: A review of the literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Deliberate self-injury is a significant social problem affecting youth in New Zealand. Rates of hospitalisation for youth (aged 15 to 19) from deliberate self-injury approximate 225 per 100,000.
Wilson, Cate
core   +1 more source

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