Instances of abuse, neglect and disrespect to women in labour are not uncommon in South Africa’s public health birthing facilities. These social injustices are surrounded by a pervasive silence that confronts undergraduate medical students in their first practical obstetrics rotation. In this article I draw on affect theory to explore how students engage with these unjust practices. Through a d...

BACKGROUND While health care needs assessments have been conducted among juveniles or adolescents by researchers in developed countries, assessments using an ethics framework particularly in developing countries are lacking. We analysed the health care needs among adolescents at the Nakambala Correctional Institution in Zambia, using the Beauchamp and Childress ethics framework. The ethics appr...

parvin e'tesami is one of the famous outstanding persian poets of the constitutional era and also the reign of pahlavi i who composed her poems based on persian classical literature with moral contents and new political and social themes in the field of didactic literature. under the influence of european newfangled intellectuals, romanticism formed during 18th century and devided into dif...

The University of South Africa's (UNISA) Institute for Social and Health Sciences was formed in mid-1997 following a decision to combine the University's Institute for Behavioral Sciences with its Health Psychology Unit, including its Center for Peace Action. This merger brought together two groups of researcher-practitioners-one from the social sciences and the other from the health sciencesth...

Water is an essential element for human life but being wasted and made unsafe due to anthropogenic activities pollution. In Bangladesh, both surface water groundwater are polluted the rapid growth of urbanisation industrialisation, most importantly, arsenic contamination industrial waste affecting potability this natural resource. Bangladesh a highly country that faces scarcity clean water, des...

Abstract In this paper we propose that our understanding of pathocentric epistemic injustices can be enriched if they are theorised in terms predicaments. These the wider socially scaffolded structures challenges, dangers, needs, and threats experienced by ill persons due to their particular emplacement within material, social, structures. previous work have described certain aspects these pred...