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On Brothers and Sisters: South Asian and Japanese Idea Systems and their Consequences (2017)
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The role expectations of cross siblings varies across culture. Such expectations, while not rigidly prescribing actual behaviors nevertheless influences relations between brothers and sisters in observable ways. In South Asia, a cultural rhetoric of... Read More about On Brothers and Sisters: South Asian and Japanese Idea Systems and their Consequences.

Picturing gendered water spaces: A textual approach to water in rural Sierra Leone (2011)
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Photographs taken by women and men through a photovoice research project about conservation in rural Sierra Leone identify water as an important community resource. Water is crucial for survival. In this rural African context, women are responsible f... Read More about Picturing gendered water spaces: A textual approach to water in rural Sierra Leone.

Embodied intersections: Gender, water and sanitation in Cameroon (2017)
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A cornerstone of feminist thinking, intersectionality offers a critical analytical tool for exploring how gender intersects with other social structures of power. However, this leaves intersectionality grounded firmly in social analysis. Becoming inc... Read More about Embodied intersections: Gender, water and sanitation in Cameroon.

Intersectionality and water: How social relations intersect with ecological difference (2016)
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A cornerstone of feminist scholarship, intersectionality theory and method explore how gender intersects with other forms of social difference such as race and class. However, in light of the entangled relationships between nature and society, this a... Read More about Intersectionality and water: How social relations intersect with ecological difference.

Where Knowledge Meets: heritage expertise at the intersection of people, perspective, and place (2017)
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Drawing on ethnographic research with heritage professionals in Scotland, the essay explores meetings as organizational devices for differentiating and relating various forms of epistemic, social, and material context. The account describes how the b... Read More about Where Knowledge Meets: heritage expertise at the intersection of people, perspective, and place.

Population dynamics and threats to an apex predator outside protected areas: Implications for carnivore management (2017)
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Data on the population dynamics and threats to large carnivores are vital to conservation efforts, but these are hampered by a paucity of studies. For some species, such as the leopard (Panthera pardus), there is such uncertainty in population trends... Read More about Population dynamics and threats to an apex predator outside protected areas: Implications for carnivore management.

Time in Flux: Daily and Weekly Rhythms in Rural Pakistan (2017)
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This paper aims to highlight that daily and weekly rhythms, being a part of the social organization of time, mediate people’s responses to social change in rural Pakistan. Indigenous ways of measuring different stages of the day have recently been re... Read More about Time in Flux: Daily and Weekly Rhythms in Rural Pakistan.

Patient-level benefits associated with decentralization of antiretroviral therapy services to primary health facilities in Malawi and Uganda (2018)
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Background The Lablite project captured information on access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) at larger health facilities (‘hubs’) and lower-level health facilities (‘spokes’) in Phalombe district, Malawi and in Kalungu district, Uganda. Methods We c... Read More about Patient-level benefits associated with decentralization of antiretroviral therapy services to primary health facilities in Malawi and Uganda.

Shifting human resources for health in the context of ART provision: qualitative and quantitative findings from the Lablite baseline study (2016)
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Background: Lablite is an implementation project supporting and studying decentralized antiretroviral therapy (ART) rollout to rural communities in Malawi, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Task shifting is one of the strategies to deal with shortage of health ca... Read More about Shifting human resources for health in the context of ART provision: qualitative and quantitative findings from the Lablite baseline study.

A reappreciation of ‘conformity’ (2016)
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In search of the exile past: pilgrims and visitors to the island of Ikaria and their bearing on the historical past (2016)
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This study focuses on two different categories of visitors interested in the history of political exile as it came to inform the social landscape of the Aegean island of Ikaria during the Greek Civil War (1946-1949). One current consists of the child... Read More about In search of the exile past: pilgrims and visitors to the island of Ikaria and their bearing on the historical past.

Impending extinction crisis of the world’s primates: Why primates matter (2017)
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Nonhuman primates, our closest biological relatives, play important roles in the livelihoods, cultures, and religions of many societies and offer unique insights into human evolution, biology, behavior, and the threat of emerging diseases. They are a... Read More about Impending extinction crisis of the world’s primates: Why primates matter.

Fungal diversity on dung of tropical animals in temperate environments: implications for reconstructing past megafaunal populations (2017)
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How will e-cigarettes affect health inequalities? Applying Bourdieu to smoking and cessation (2018)
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This paper uses the work of Bourdieu to theorise smoking and cessation through a class lens, showing that the struggle for distinction created the social gradient in smoking, with smoking stigma operating as a proxy for class stigma. This led to incr... Read More about How will e-cigarettes affect health inequalities? Applying Bourdieu to smoking and cessation.

At the margins of Biomedicine: The ambiguous position of ‘Registered Medical Practitioners’ in rural Indian healthcare (2016)
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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.

Modern fossils: response to Vaden and Salminen (2013)
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Manubrium-limited ministernotomy versus conventional sternotomy for aortic valve replacement (MAVRIC): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (2017)
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Background: Aortic valve replacement is one of the most common cardiac surgical procedures performed worldwide. Conventional aortic valve replacement surgery is performed via a median sternotomy; the sternum is divided completely from the sternal not... Read More about Manubrium-limited ministernotomy versus conventional sternotomy for aortic valve replacement (MAVRIC): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Unintended Consequences of the 'Bushmeat Ban' in West Africa During the 2013-2016 Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic (2018)
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Following the 2013–2016 outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa, governments across the region imposed a ban on the hunting and consumption of meat from wild animals. This injunction was accompanied by public health messages emphasising... Read More about Unintended Consequences of the 'Bushmeat Ban' in West Africa During the 2013-2016 Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic.

Everyday Health Security Practices as Disaster Resilience in Rural Bangladesh (2016)
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Health security is a relatively new concept in terms of how it is practised in disaster-prone locales. We observed 10 rural households in Bangladesh for four months using informal interviews, field diaries, and observation. The findings suggest that... Read More about Everyday Health Security Practices as Disaster Resilience in Rural Bangladesh.

Mismatch or mass marketing? Stone Age diets, industrialisation and ultra-processed foods (in Turkish) (2016)
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The Stone Age diet, which first began to appear in the literature in the 1950s and became prominent in the 1980s and 1990s, has become an increasingly popular type of diet. This type of diet aims to create the analogy of pre-aging people's diet as a... Read More about Mismatch or mass marketing? Stone Age diets, industrialisation and ultra-processed foods (in Turkish).