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View article: Why Sex Sells: An Analysis of Sexual Ad Appeal as a Reflection of Gay, Male Culture
Why Sex Sells: An Analysis of Sexual Ad Appeal as a Reflection of Gay, Male Culture Open
This study addresses the current state of mainstream advertising in terms of gay, male consumers. A thorough literature review connects different elements of advertising tactics to reveal what gay culture may look like and how it can be be…
View article: Covid’s INR conundrum: Unraveling the impact of covid-19 on warfarin management
Covid’s INR conundrum: Unraveling the impact of covid-19 on warfarin management Open
COVID-19 is known to induce clotting cascade abnormalities, posing challenges in managing warfarin for patients with thromboembolic conditions like atrial fibrillation and pulmonary embolism [1]. Some studies suggest a hypercoagulation sta…
View article: Understanding Global Shifts, Social Welfare, and Development—Unevenness in a Globalized World
Understanding Global Shifts, Social Welfare, and Development—Unevenness in a Globalized World Open
Social and economic inequalities are both significant and important issues in the study of globalization, while global forces have widened their consequences such as unleashing poverty and gender imbalances in terms of equality. The reason…
View article: Establishing Commercial Aviation Safety Privilege: Court Precedent versus Statute
Establishing Commercial Aviation Safety Privilege: Court Precedent versus Statute Open
This concept paper evaluates the pros and cons of establishing commercial aviation safety privilege beyond the almost uniquely United States Department of Defense (DoD) legal protection built upon court precedence (stare decisis) as a stat…
View article: Comparative Aging and Qualitative Theorizing
Comparative Aging and Qualitative Theorizing Open
The principal aim of this argument is to analyze the swift expansion in the proportion of older people across the globe, and to highlight the main social and economic forces causing this through methodological challenges especially through…
View article: Introduction To The Special Issue: Researching Aging and Comparative Reflections
Introduction To The Special Issue: Researching Aging and Comparative Reflections Open
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View article: Health and Aging in Contemporary China
Health and Aging in Contemporary China Open
Researchers and policy makers from across the globe are increasingly concerned about the accelerating numbers of older people in their societies despite public health concerns about Covid-19.In the Xi Administration in 2021 in China, there…
View article: Community Medicine, Mental Illness and Social Control
Community Medicine, Mental Illness and Social Control Open
This article explores the dualism of historic and contemporary rise and consolidation of Psychiatry and its relationship to the social construction of mental illness in Europe.It explores the emergent power dynamics that are inherent in ho…
View article: Hyperglycaemia and Pseudomonas aeruginosa acidify cystic fibrosis airway surface liquid by elevating epithelial monocarboxylate transporter 2 dependent lactate-H+ secretion
Hyperglycaemia and Pseudomonas aeruginosa acidify cystic fibrosis airway surface liquid by elevating epithelial monocarboxylate transporter 2 dependent lactate-H+ secretion Open
The cystic fibrosis (CF) airway surface liquid (ASL) provides a nutrient rich environment for bacterial growth including elevated glucose, which together with defective bacterial killing due to aberrant HCO3− transport and acidic ASL, make…
View article: China, Aging, Family and the Relationship with Health
China, Aging, Family and the Relationship with Health Open
Academics from across the globe are increasingly concerned about the rising numbers of older people in their society.In the Xi Administration in 2020 in China, there are concerns about the inadequacy of pension funds, of growing pressures …
View article: Deconstructing Old Age
Deconstructing Old Age Open
Old age is not of itself a medical 'problem', pathology or statement of need.'Older people' or an 'aging population' are not a homogeneous group and categorisation as a distinct service user group is, arguably, contentious (Chen and Powell…
View article: Aging, Discourse and Subject Positioning: The Case of Health and Social Care – A Foucauldian Excursion
Aging, Discourse and Subject Positioning: The Case of Health and Social Care – A Foucauldian Excursion Open
In recent times, there has been an extraordinary global rise in debate about aging, despite the frequent charge that the subject of ''aging'' has been relatively underdeveloped in social policy shaping and practice (Phillipson 2013).This a…
View article: Narrative and Aging – The Social Construction of Grandparenting: A Foucauldian Analysis
Narrative and Aging – The Social Construction of Grandparenting: A Foucauldian Analysis Open
Due to the mounting significance of current research in the areas of family and aging, the article investigates the particular relationship between old age and family life by means of studying the role of grand-parenting and the way it is …
View article: New Care and Aging Dynamics in China
New Care and Aging Dynamics in China Open
The number of patients with type -2 diabetes (T2DM) with cardiovascular complication is progressively increasing all over the world.The burden of T2DM with cardiovascular complication is now a huge Palestinian public health challenge incre…
View article: Rethinking Community, Medicalization, Social and Health Care: A Foucauldian Analysis
Rethinking Community, Medicalization, Social and Health Care: A Foucauldian Analysis Open
Social care and health services are fundamental issues used to situate the aging identities that people who require such services in occidental societies.Both contain changing vehicles that arbitrate relations between older people and heal…
View article: Enabling the Quality of Care for Older People
Enabling the Quality of Care for Older People Open
There has been a raft of research recently on the care of older people. Many of them take a theoretical approach and many take a policy approach. These books are huge in scope and a survey of them would suggest they are comparative mainly …
View article: China, Aging and Health
China, Aging and Health Open
There is no doubt that in many societies around the globe older people are a growing proportion of the global population Krug. The age structure of the global population is changing from one in which younger people predominated to a societ…
View article: Social Policy and Narrative: The Global and State Contradictions of Care
Social Policy and Narrative: The Global and State Contradictions of Care Open
This article provides a critical assessment of the assumptions and narratives underpinning the development of social policy initiatives targeting caring relationships based upon family ties.At the time of writing in late 2018, the impact o…
View article: Health and Trust Relations
Health and Trust Relations Open
The paper is a critical review of the problems and implications of trust and in managing health in the British health system.It is a system in need of strong management in the light of the global downturn in recently.Despite of policies on…
View article: Population Well-Beingand Health: A Critical Analysis of Neo-Liberalism and Globalization
Population Well-Beingand Health: A Critical Analysis of Neo-Liberalism and Globalization Open
This article looks at the development of globalization in terms of its conceptual contestation, theoretical development, and social practices.This is mapped out in relation to the social and economic impact of health and well being of nati…
View article: Understanding the Human Aging Body – A Critical Exegesis
Understanding the Human Aging Body – A Critical Exegesis Open
This article critically engages with the importance of the aging body as applied to understanding both the praxis of aging studies.We begin our journey by looking at the disciplinary dominance of bio-medical models in understanding bodily …
View article: “The Irish Conflict” and the experiences of female ex-combatants in the Irish Republican Army
“The Irish Conflict” and the experiences of female ex-combatants in the Irish Republican Army Open
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically explore the importance of the experiences of female former combatants during the Irish Conflict, colloquially known as “The Troubles” and outline key moments of resistance for female polit…
View article: The problem of biology and anti-aging: A critical commentary
The problem of biology and anti-aging: A critical commentary Open
This year saw more anti-aging researchers talk about providing a 'cure' for aging in the next five years. Recently, this has been taken up by a number of people who could be called "anti-aging pioneers” (Powell, 2005). One of the fundament…
View article: Foucault and technologies of health
Foucault and technologies of health Open
Whilst the earlier work of Foucault has influenced explanatory frameworks for understanding health and medical research, what has not been delineated sufficiently is Foucault’s later work of ‘technologies of self’. This paper unravels some…