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Pandemic Risk and Standpoint Epistemology: A Matter of Solidarity
Current and past pandemics have several aspects in common. It is expected that all members of society contribute to beat it. But it is also clear...
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Peer support working: a question of ontology and epistemology?
Mental health services are currently undergoing immense cultural, philosophical, and organisational change. One such mechanism involved in this...
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A Dutch Study of Remarkable Recoveries After Prayer: How to Deal with Uncertainties of Explanation
This article addresses cases of remarkable recoveries related to healing after prayer. We sought to investigate how people who experienced remarkable...
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Reflective practice is a prerequisite for One Health development
One Health is being promoted as a transformative approach in health, conservation, and environmental sustainability. The polycrisis of climate...
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Intersectionality, health equity, and EDI: What’s the difference for health researchers?
Many countries adopted comprehensive national initiatives to promote equity in higher education with the goal of transforming the culture of...
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Anatomy of Being, Metaphysics of Death: The Case of Avicenna’s Logical Dissection
Elucidating a metaphysics of medicine is vital for framing a coherent medical ethics. In this paper, I examine the historical case of Avicenna, the...
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A philosophical perspective on the development and application of patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs)
Questionnaires are a common method in healthcare and clinical research to collect self-reported data on patients’ behaviour and outcomes rather than...
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Sympathetic science: analogism in Brazilian ethnobiological repertoires among quilombolas of the Atlantic forest and Amazonian ribeirinhos
BackgroundDrawing on Phillipe Descola’s comparative analysis of ontological regimes across cultures, this article identifies analogism guiding...
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Interdisciplinary collaboration in serious illness conversations in patients with multiple myeloma and caregivers – a qualitative study
BackgroundThere is growing evidence that conversations between healthcare professionals and patients with serious illness can improve the quality of...
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The Epistemology of the Near Miss and Its Potential Contribution in the Prevention and Treatment of Problem-Gambling
The near-miss has been considered an important factor of reinforcement in gambling behavior, and previous research has focused more on its...
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Black Lives Matter Principles as an Africentric Approach to Improving Black American Health
Although public health has made substantial advances in closing the health disparity gap, Black Americans still experience inequalities and...
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“My life’s not my own”: A qualitative study into the expectations of head and neck cancer carers
IntroductionCancers that originate from the upper aerodigestive tract are collectively known as head and neck cancer. The most common are squamous...
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Implicit and explicit: a sco** review exploring the contribution of anthropological practice in implementation science
BackgroundThis study’s goal is to identify the existing variation in how, why, and by whom anthropological practice is conducted as part of...
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Patients’ perspectives on quality and patient safety failures: lessons learned from an inquiry into transvaginal mesh in Australia
BackgroundTransvaginal mesh (TVM) surgeries emerged as an innovative treatment for stress urine incontinency and/or pelvic organ prolapse in 1996....
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Patients’ and clinicians’ expectations on integrative medicine Services for Diabetes: a focus group study
BackgroundDifference of perspective between patients and physicians over integrative medicine (IM) research and service provision remains unclear...
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Doctors on the move 2: a qualitative study on the social integration of middle eastern physicians following their migration to Germany
BackgroundThe integration of immigrating physicians has become a challenge for many societies and health care systems worldwide. Facilitating the...