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Constructing the Laboring Body: An Exploration of Early Hysterectomies, Premature Menopause, and Aging Among Women Laborers in Rural India
In this chapter, through a life-course perspective, I outline the possibility of viewing aging through the lens of intersecting complexities of...
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Community-Based Healthcare of the Elderly
The elderly mainly access hospitals for their health care needs. However, hospitalization often results in many unwanted adverse effects such as...
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Disability, Conflict, and Environmental Conditions: Introduction
It is now accepted that persons with disabilities suffer disproportionate harms in disaster and displacement contexts, most particularly when persons...
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Aging in the Middle East with Special Focus on Iran
In recent decades, Iran has experienced significant demographic changes, with a shift toward urbanization and changes in family size and structure,...
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Gender Resource Gap in Caregiving of Older Adults in India
Gender resource gap (GRG) impacts girls and women in all stages of life as they primarily perform care roles more so at the older age when they...
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The Impact of Multilateral Investment Treaties in Resolving Investment Disputes in the Energy and Mining Sectors: Lessons from the European Experience
With energy investment disputes increasingly on the rise, is the modern regime of foreign investment protection capable of producing effective...
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The Matrix Resurrections: Love Outlives Death
This chapter focuses on 2021’s The Matrix Resurrections. Directed by Lana Wachowski (Lilly Wachowski had time conflicts with another project) it has...
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Overcoming the Marginalisation of Older Spouse Carers
This concluding chapter will provide an overview of preceding content and consider its implications for research, policy and practice. The first part...
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Vaccines as Social and Political Phenomena?
The study of vaccine hesitancy has dominated the social analysis of vaccines and the relationship between society and vaccines. Unfortunately, less...
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The Emerging Immunisation Social Order: A History of Vaccines
This chapter is a historical account of the social and political dimensions of vaccines and vaccine science over the last two centuries. Beginning...
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Conclusion
This chapter draws our arguments together to provide an overarching picture of how societies engineer high levels of vaccine coverage, as well as the...
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Grassroots in Incremental Village Redevelopment: New Opportunities for Migrants in the Commons
Bei**g’s urban villages have spontaneously experienced bottom-up, incremental, and self-governing redevelopment trajectories—a pattern different...
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The Management Strategies of Older Spouse Carers
Having explored the experience of caring and the influence of context and resources on this experience, in preceding chapters, this chapter will...
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Resilience of Housing Supply in Urban Villages for Migrant Groups: A Demand Side Investigation
Is the urban village a passive choice for non-hukou migrants under the discriminatory hukou system? The answers are mixed. This chapter reviews...
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Entering the World of Older Spouse Carers
In addition to the important impact of demographic trends and contextual factors such as socio-economic status on the incidence of care between older...
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Pain, Life, and Theodicy: Exploring Uncharted Territory
Chapter 3 prepares the task of demonstrating how theological and philosophical reflections can be integrated with scientific insights to achieve a...
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Overcoming Reductionism: Towards a New Model of Relations in Science–Religion
In the second chapter, we delve into the necessity for incorporating theological explanations within the realm of science. We explore the various...
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Why Study News? The Democratic Role of News
This chapter asks, why is it important to understand and analyse the factors that influence the production of news? The democratic role attributed to...
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Introduction
This chapter introduces the main aim of the book—to explore how we can understand and analyse the range of key factors that have an important effect...
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News Audiences
The arrival of digital journalism and the associated participatory turn in journalism has shifted the audience away from being an imagined and...