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All the bedrooms a stage: Reconceptualizing sex as “performance” to sex as “rehearsal”

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, sex is often spoken about in terms of performance, and naturally invokes language of theatricality. Sexual performance has been used as an umbrella term to refer to sexual satisfaction, behavior, embodiment, and also pathology in terms of conditions such as erectile dysfunction.
Taylor Harmon
wiley   +1 more source

UK science press officers, professional vision and the generation of expectations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Science press officers can play an integral role in helping promote expectations and hype about biomedical research. Using this as a starting point, this article draws on interviews with 10 UK-based science press officers, which explored how they view ...
Borchelt RE   +29 more
core   +2 more sources

Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

Conservation Can Better Integrate Environmental Justice if We Consider People’s Needs

open access: yes
The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Beck M. Swab
wiley   +1 more source

Queer configurations: The female divine, regional identity, and Queer‐religious belonging in South India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
wiley   +1 more source

Medical sociology as a heuristic instrument for medical tourism and cross-border healthcare Comment on “International patients on operation vacation – perspectives of patients travelling to Hungary for orthopedic treatments” [PDF]

open access: yes
In this commentary, we establish a relationship between medical sociology and the study of medical tourism and cross-border healthcare by introducing Ronald Andersen’s behavioral model of healthcare use, and linking this model to the
Mainil, Tomas
core  

The relationship between Higher Education and labour market in Greece : the weakest link? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The high level of graduate unemployment, even though it is acknowledged as one of the most distinctive characteristics of the Greek labour market, it has not attracted enough attention in the academic literature.
C Kanellopoulos   +21 more
core   +2 more sources

Increasing Student Teachers' Preference of Scientific Evidence—Insights From a Utility Value Intervention

open access: yesFuture in Educational Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Teacher education should equip student teachers with scientific evidence and scientific theories as a resource for future pedagogical action. In opposition to this, student teachers tend to perceive a rather low utility value of scientific evidence and scientific theories for pedagogical action.
Michael Rochnia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Free Market for Medical Care? It’s Been Tried [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Alternative medical practitioners and Jacksonian populists found common cause in an open market for medicine, write Jacob Habinek and Heather A ...
Habinek, J., Haveman, H.
core   +1 more source

The stigmatisation of people with chronic back pain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This study responded to the need for better theoretical understanding of experiences that shape the beliefs, attitudes and needs of chronic back patients attending pain clinics.
Baszanger I   +25 more
core   +1 more source

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