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Perceptual discrepancies in the experience and reporting of violence against children are more pronounced among social workers compared to laypeople. [PDF]

PLoS One
Dahl M, Ngaosuvan L, Granberg Flintberg J, Silfversparre J, Stille L, Lasota M, Sikström S.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“They Look At Us Like Parasites”: The Corporeal Stigmatization and Pathologization of Deportees in Tijuana, Mexico

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the embodied and institutional forms of marginalization experienced by Mexican deportees in Tijuana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in clinics and social service organizations, it explores how deportees are corporeally stigmatized, denied legal recognition, and pathologized as addicts in need of coercive ...
Carlos Martinez
wiley   +1 more source

Quality of Prison Life and Physical Environment: What Is Predictive of Prisoners' Overall Satisfaction with the Prison? [PDF]

Healthcare (Basel)
Pape H, Johnsen B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Carework as resistance: How incarcerated women care for each other to survive carcerality amid a global pandemic

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic was a crisis in prisons and jails, with some of the largest outbreaks in the United States happening inside carceral facilities. In the absence of structural interventions to protect them, people inside prisons engaged in various forms of carework to support one another and to draw attention to the horrific conditions. We
Esther Melton, Leslie Riddle, Jennifer Elyse James   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

All-cause mortality and overdose deaths among 4192 people who inject drugs in Stockholm: a 10-year register-based cohort study. [PDF]

Harm Reduct J
Holmén E, Hammarberg A, Kåberg M.
europepmc   +1 more source

The psychiatric fix

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
wiley   +1 more source

Dementia as a risk factor for 30-day mortality in community-acquired pneumonia in Colombia (CAP): A survival study. [PDF]

PLoS One
Hernández-Puentes JS, Bastidas-Goyes AR, Tuta-Quintero E, Díaz-Quijano D, Méndez Peñalosa N, Zuleta Sanchez N, Herran Perez M, Rodríguez Sánchez J, Ortiz Marquez V, Colmenares Leal A, Zuleta Montañez J, Riveros Pedraza L, Sarmiento Cardozo L, Piñeros Clavijo M, Vasquez Bazurto M, Lenhardt Guaqueta I.   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“Nowhere else to go”: Slow abandonment and (en)closures of long‐term care in Los Angeles

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Residential long‐term care facilities, known in California as “board and care” homes, have been closing rapidly in the last decade. Proponents assert these provide vital forms of housing and care to the poor and must be saved, while critics contend they perpetuate the institutionalization of people with disabilities and should be abolished ...
Maxwell A. Hellmann
wiley   +1 more source

Reflecting the voices of prison officers with respect to their support, supervision, and wellbeing training needs: a reflexive thematic analysis. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Forsyth J, Shaw J, Shepherd A.
europepmc   +1 more source

Searching for safety: Working conditions and policing in a US emergency department

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, emergency departments aren't supposed to turn anyone away. They are the safety‐net of the safety‐net providing life‐saving care. Yet, what happens to healthcare when conditions are so strained that patients and staff lash out at each other? What happens when the safety net becomes a carceral net?
Fabián Luis C. Fernández
wiley   +1 more source