This article is about practices of borrowing and lending money in the context Georgian bazaar trade. While many anthropological studies focus on debtors or individual moneylenders, this starts from perspective microcredit experts, who grant loans to traders behalf their companies thereby engage complex relationships. Borrowing a institution consists an administrative act, which sealed by formal...

Abstract This paper reflects on the relationship between biological bodies and technological artifacts, based ethnographic research development of circulatory assist technologies, known as artificial hearts. To understand embodiment that such mechanical devices help to produce, we aim characterize two types enacted from medical practices biotechnologies designed for patients with advanced heart...

Researchers in moral psychology and social justice have agreed that morality is about matters of harm, rights, and justice. On this definition of morality, conservative opposition to social justice programs appears to be immoral, and has been explained as a product of various non-moral processes such as system justification or social dominance orientation. In this article we argue that, from an...

Differences in Northern and Southern European gender relations have historical roots that can be investigated the regions’ literature cinema. The mating morality of romantic love facilitated West’s First Sexual Revolution mid-eighteenth century. Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough, a late-nineteenth-century literary movement, used Darwinian perspectives to reveal delusions double standards. moveme...

Male circumcision and marriage are significant cultural practices that mark a critical stage in person’s life many African societies. Many rites of passage exist, intertwined. Marriage like other themes have attracted wide scholarship diverse depths. Such studies underlined, among others, the nature, forms, types even place two initiation society. What, however, has not received adequate attent...

The present article analyzes the category of “sexual exploitation” based upon practices that are generally pointed to as part this category, paying particular attention its implications and effects on lives adolescents state, social movement, academic abilities understand relationships framed by category. Our analysis is ethnographic fieldwork carried out between 2010 2015 among state agents yo...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Spirituality is a subjective and multi-dimensional concept. The ambiguity in its meaning can create barriers in its application in both education and medicine. The present study aimed to explore the Iranian cancer patients' perception of spirituality. METHODS A qualitative study, using the content analysis approach, was conducted. Semi-structured interviews were held ...

Neuroethics applies cognitive neuroscience for prescribing alterations to conceptions of self and society, and for prescriptively judging the ethical applications of neurotechnologies. Plentiful normative premises are available to ground such prescriptivity, however prescriptive neuroethics may remain fragmented by social conventions, cultural ideologies, and ethical theories. Herein we offer t...

In the nursing profession, leadership plays a significant role in creating motivation and thus enabling nurses to provide high quality care. Ethics is an essential component of leadership qualifications and the ethical leader can help create an ethical atmosphere, offer ethical guidance, and ensure the occupational satisfaction of personnel through prioritizing moralities. However, some issues ...