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Social Learning, Intelligence, and Brain Evolution. (2016)
Book Chapter
Street, S., & Laland, K. (2016). Social Learning, Intelligence, and Brain Evolution. In S. V. Shepherd (Ed.), The Wiley Handbook of Evolutionary Neuroscience (495-513). John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118316757.ch18

Social learning-learning influenced by observation of, or interaction with, other animals -allows individuals to acquire information, concerning, for instance, the location and quality of food, mates, predators, rivals, and pathways, as well as forag... Read More about Social Learning, Intelligence, and Brain Evolution..

Participatory Research and the Medicalization of Research Ethics Processes (2016)
Journal Article
Noorani, T., Charlesworth, A., Kite, A., & McDermont, M. (2017). Participatory Research and the Medicalization of Research Ethics Processes. Social and Legal Studies, 26(3), 378-400. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663916677561

This article illustrates how medicalized epistemologies and methodologies significantly influence the institutional ethical review processes applied to sociolegal research in law schools. It argues this development has elevated particular renderings... Read More about Participatory Research and the Medicalization of Research Ethics Processes.

Early Childhood Pediatric Sleep Concerns for Parents: Co-sleeping (2016)
Book Chapter
Sullivan, S., & Ball, H. (2017). Early Childhood Pediatric Sleep Concerns for Parents: Co-sleeping. In J. Stein (Ed.), Reference module in neuroscience and biobehavioral psychology. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-809324-5.00880-4

Of all the sleep-related challenges in infancy and early childhood, none has generated the attention and controversy of co-sleeping. Rates of co-sleeping vary across countries and cultures. While in some studies co-sleeping has been associated with p... Read More about Early Childhood Pediatric Sleep Concerns for Parents: Co-sleeping.

Modeling outcomes of first-Line antiretroviral therapy and rate of CD4 counts change among a cohort of HIV/AIDS patients in Ethiopia: A retrospective cohort study (2016)
Journal Article
Awoke, T., Worku, A., Kebede, Y., Kasim, A., Birlie, B., Braekers, R., …Shkedy, Z. (2016). Modeling outcomes of first-Line antiretroviral therapy and rate of CD4 counts change among a cohort of HIV/AIDS patients in Ethiopia: A retrospective cohort study. PLoS ONE, 11(12), Article e0168323. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168323

Background: Antiretroviral therapy has shown to be effective in reducing morbidity and mortality in patients infected with HIV for the past couples of decades. However, there remains a need to better understand the characteristics of long-term treatm... Read More about Modeling outcomes of first-Line antiretroviral therapy and rate of CD4 counts change among a cohort of HIV/AIDS patients in Ethiopia: A retrospective cohort study.

Biosocial conservation: integrating biological and ethnographic methods to study human-primate interactions (2016)
Journal Article
Setchell, J., Fairet, E., Shutt, K., Waters, S., & Bell, S. (2017). Biosocial conservation: integrating biological and ethnographic methods to study human-primate interactions. International Journal of Primatology, 38(2), 401-426. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-016-9938-5

Biodiversity conservation is one of the grand challenges facing society. Many people interested in biodiversity conservation have a background in wildlife biology. However, the diverse social, cultural, political, and historical factors that influenc... Read More about Biosocial conservation: integrating biological and ethnographic methods to study human-primate interactions.

Beyond temporality: Notes on the anthropology of time from a shrinking fieldsite (2016)
Journal Article
Ringel, F. (2016). Beyond temporality: Notes on the anthropology of time from a shrinking fieldsite. Anthropological Theory, 16(4), 390-412. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463499616659971

With the help of ethnographic material from Germany’s fastest shrinking city, I critically engage in this paper with the term ‘temporality’. By bringing together recent insights from the anthropology of time and the future, the literature on post-soc... Read More about Beyond temporality: Notes on the anthropology of time from a shrinking fieldsite.

Re-imagined Communities: a new ethical approach to water policy (2016)
Book Chapter
Strang, V. (2016). Re-imagined Communities: a new ethical approach to water policy. In C. Conca, & E. Weinthal (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of water politics and policy. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199335084.013.4

Focusing on water as a connective material flow, this chapter reconsiders notions of community, agency, and identity from the perspective of contemporary debates on ecological ethics and relationality. By articulating the fluid relationships between... Read More about Re-imagined Communities: a new ethical approach to water policy.

At the margins of Biomedicine: The ambiguous position of ‘Registered Medical Practitioners’ in rural Indian healthcare (2016)
Journal Article
Nahar, P., Kishore Kannuri, N., Mikkilineni, S., Murthy, G., & Phillimore, P. (2017). At the margins of Biomedicine: The ambiguous position of ‘Registered Medical Practitioners’ in rural Indian healthcare. Sociology of Health & Illness, 39(4), 614-628. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12521

This analysis challenges a tendency in public health and the social sciences to associate India's medical pluralism with a distinction between biomedicine, as a homogeneous entity, and its non-biomedical ‘others’. We argue that this overdrawn dichoto... Read More about At the margins of Biomedicine: The ambiguous position of ‘Registered Medical Practitioners’ in rural Indian healthcare.

Improving Ebola infection prevention and control in primary healthcare facilities in Sierra Leone: a single-group pretest post-test, mixed-methods study (2016)
Journal Article
Ratnayake, R., Ho, L., Ansumana, R., Brown, H., Borchert, M., Miller, L., …Sahr, F. (2016). Improving Ebola infection prevention and control in primary healthcare facilities in Sierra Leone: a single-group pretest post-test, mixed-methods study. BMJ Global Health, 1(4), Article e000103. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2016-000103

Background Accomplishing infection prevention and control (IPC) in health facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa is challenging. Owing to poor IPC, healthcare workers (HCWs) were frequently infected during Sierra Leone's Ebola epidemic. In late 2014, IPC w... Read More about Improving Ebola infection prevention and control in primary healthcare facilities in Sierra Leone: a single-group pretest post-test, mixed-methods study.

The Angry Earth: Wellbeing, Place, and Extractivism in the Amazon (2016)
Journal Article
Sarmiento Barletti, J. P. (2016). The Angry Earth: Wellbeing, Place, and Extractivism in the Amazon. Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice, 23(3), 43-53. https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2016.230305

In this article, I argue for a broadening of the conceptualisation of wellbeing in the scholarly and policy literature on the topic. I do so as, despite the calls for the inclusion of place in analyses of wellbeing, the literature on the topic still... Read More about The Angry Earth: Wellbeing, Place, and Extractivism in the Amazon.