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Time to Treat the Climate and Nature Crisis as One Indivisible Global Health Emergency

Over 200 health journals call on the United Nations, political leaders, and health professionals to recognise that climate change and biodiversity loss are one ... powerful advocates for both restoring biodiversity and tackling climate change for the good of health. Political leaders must recognise both the severe threats to health from the planetary crisis as well as

Curiosity and Creative Experimentation Among Psychiatrists in India

represent a rough continuum. They range from a bold and confident psychiatrist who uses various techniques including ritual healing to another who yearns to incorporate more Indian philosophy and psychology ... to include more talk therapy and/or draw in South Asian disciplines of the mind from classical philosophy to Buddhism to ayurvedic medicine to contemporary ritual healing practices. The diverging

The Dreamwork of the Symptom: Reading Structural Racism and Family History in a Drug Addiction

A key tenet of critical health research is that individual symptoms must be considered in light of the social and political contexts that shape or, in some cases, produce them. Precisely how ... Leon's narrative-what I term the surface of the symptom-and to the formal mechanisms by which latent contents (such as the social, the political, and the personal) are transformed into the manifest form of

“We Need Other Human Beings in Order to be Human”: Examining the Indigenous Philosophy of Umunthu and Strengthening Mental Health Interventions

village health workers within a mental health task-shifting initiative and reveal how the ancient philosophy of Umunthu with its values of interconnectedness, inclusion and inter-relationships informs and ... wealth and the preservation of the life of another human being, then one should opt for the preservation of life. The third saying is a principle deeply embedded in traditional African political philosophy

Intimacy, Anonymity, and “Care with Nothing in the Way” on an Abortion Hotline

outside the State’s scrutiny of abortion provision, the Hotline offers its volunteers a way to practice abortion care that aligns with their professional and political commitments and that distances them ... commitments and  that distances them from the direct  harm they see caused by the political, financial, and bureaucratic constraints of their clinical work. By delineating the structure of this new regime of

SymptomSpeak: Women’s Struggle for History and Health in Kosovo

realities, and social politics? In what ways might the language of pain act on and transform the world by shaping and changing socio-political agendas? I explored these questions among women in Kosovo and ... Anthropology 25 ( 1 ): 19 - 43 . 2011 What Is Deleuzean Political Philosophy . Cr´ıtica Contempora´nea . Revista De Teor´ıa Pol´ıtica 1 : 115 - 126 . 2011 Economies of Abandonment: Social Belonging and Endurance

Ancient Conflagration: a Reconstruction of a Middle Formative Fire at the Chiripa Mound, Bolivia

in fire management. Our findings indicate the fire appears intentional, likely a ritual event. We believe the structures were burned to facilitate a socio-political change during a period of social ... socio-political change during a period of social transition at the end of the Middle Formative period in Bolivia. Formative; Andes; Ritual burning; Geoarchaeology; Paleoethnobotany Introduction The

Entropology: an Information-Theoretic Approach to Understanding Archaeological Data

heat of political argument, they were just a welcome change of fashion (see Hillman, 2013, 163) . Its European counterpart is the role of blue jeans as both a fashion and a political statement (see ... not necessarily reflect a sudden shift in beliefs, political organization, or ethnic identity (Driessen & Langohr, 2007) . The collected data include ceramic vessels from both ritual and daily

The Colonial Clinic in Conflict: Towards a Medical History of the Palestinian Great Revolt, 1936–1939

quo, they could serve other, more radical ends too. To highlight the complexity of the political positioning of medical workers and healthcare, this article focuses on the town of Hebron during the ... range of colonial and missionary archival sources. The first part of the article uses the case study of an Egyptian medical doctor who took up political office in the town in moments of crisis to show how

‘A Complex Past’: Theory and Applications

, 45 - 67 . https://doi.org/10. 1890 /13‑ 0133 . 1 Charbonneau , M. ( 2016 ). Modularity and recombination in technological evolution . Philosophy and Technology , 29 , 373 - 392 . https://doi.org ... system? European Journal for Philosophy of Science , 3 , 33 - 67 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194‑012‑0056‑8 Layton , R. ( 2003 ). Agency, structuration, and complexity . In R. A. Bentley & H. D. G

Explaining Known Past Routes, Underdetermination, and the Use of Multiple Cost Functions

. ( 2005 ). Storia della Sardegna antica . Nuoro, Italy: Il maestrale. McMullin , E. ( 1985 ). Galilean idealization . Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A , 16 ( 3 ), 247 - 273 . https ... . Philosophy of Science , 73 ( 5 ), 730 - 742 . https://doi.org/10. 1086/518628 Weisberg , M. ( 2007 ). Three Kinds of Idealization . Journal of Philosophy , 104 ( 12 ), 639 - 659 . https://doi. org/10.5840

‘A German Whore and no Money at that’: Insanity and the Moral and Political Economies of German South West Africa

witness, I will explore the ways in which illness narratives can reveal the complex moral and political economies of the colonial world. ... political economies of the colonial world. KeywordsMental illness Narratives Feminist ethics Gender Moral and political economies German South West Africa  Introduction When we rave, we rave against the

COVİD-19 VE SİYASETİN DİJİTAL DÖNÜŞÜMÜ

Digital political parties entered the political arena in first quarter of twenty-first century as an alternative to the representation crisis of traditional political parties. The purposes of digital ... in pandemic period. Many political activities are cancelled all through the world because of COVID-19 pandemic and in most countries the elections are postponed to uncertain dates. The governments take

‘No-One Can Tell a Story Better than the One Who Lived It’: Reworking Constructions of Childhood and Trauma Through the Arts in Rwanda

childhood and trauma are based on bio-psychological frameworks emanating from the Global North, often at odds with the historical, political, economic, social and cultural contexts in which interventions are ... insufficient consideration of the specificity of the origins of such frameworks (Young 1995) nor of the historical, political, economic, social and cultural contexts in which they are enacted (Bracken 2002). We

Meaning in Psychosis: A Veteran’s Critique of the Traumas of Racism, Sexual Violence, and Intersectional Oppression

biological anomaly, but a complex response to life experience, and in Rosa’s case, an embodiment of oppression. This makes Rosa’s own political agency visible and her calls for justice and recognition ... that assert psychiatric diagnosis and biomedicine are themselves cultural products that reproduce and maintain hegemonic political ideologies about personhood and society (Gordon 1988; Comaroff 1982

Continuum of Trauma: Fear and Mistrust of Institutions in Communities of Color During the COVID-19 Pandemic

. (2020), “[r]adical changes in the technological, economic, or political conditions (e.g., revolution, market collapse, forced immigration or deportation, genocide, terrorism, violence, the assassination ... of a political leader) can affect core values, beliefs, and norms, creating cultural disorientation and possible cultural trauma” (p. 172–173). Due to cultural trauma, communities of color can

An Ethnological Analogy and Biogenetic Model for Interpretation of Religion and Ritual in the Past

practitioner types in their relationships to subsistence and sociopolitical conditions (foraging, intensive agriculture, political integration, warfare, and community integration). These relations reveal the ... involving (1) alterations of consciousness used in healing rituals, manifested in a cultural universal of shamanistic healers; (2) kin inheritance of leadership roles providing a hierarchical political

The Politicised Child, Transcultural Constructions of Childhood, Psychological Trauma, and the Mind in the Modern World: Afterword

what the clinical psychology profession says it is? Is it a moral philosophy of the self? Is the business of other people's minds more a matter of philosophy than of science, which cannot separate fact ... but also the obverse, the children whose lives and fate seemingly carry no political valence. The child shot dead by an Israeli soldier or settler in a polity in which, as the Israeli journalist Gideon

The Politicised Child During the Seventeenth-Century British Civil Wars: An Historical Perspective on Representations of Children and Trauma During Conflict

regarded as victims but could display agency, whilst also acknowledging social, cultural, economic and political pressures. Although children in the Civil Wars may have experienced trauma, the evidence is ... shaped adults’ behaviour towards children. These will have had an impact on the way childhood was experienced, along with the other economic, demographic and political structures that shape society

Psychologists’ Perspectives on the Psychological Suffering of Refugee Patients in Brazil

results also show that the use of manuals for the classification of mental disorders is contested among psychologists in Brazil. Most psychologists stressed patients’ socio-political suffering and saw ... -political suffering and saw patients’ symptoms as normal reactions to their experiences. There is a need to acknowledge the socio-political suffering of refugees in Brazil and foster their mental health by