BACKGROUND Incidence and risk factors for self-harm vary according to ethnicity. People who self-harm have been shown to have increased risk of premature death, but little is known about mortality following self-harm in ethnic minority groups. METHODS A prospective cohort study of self-harm presentations to three English cities (Derby, Manchester, Oxford) between 2000 and 2010. We linked to a...

The penultimate part of the Riḥla by Ibn Baṭṭūṭa recounts his return journey to Morocco from Middle East through North Africa—and another short tour in al-Andalus—between January 1348 and March 1350. At that time, all these territories plague pandemic known as Black Death was raging references it punctuate this work like a tired refrain. As numerous studies have shown borrowings adaptations oth...

This paper examines adult age-specific mortality patterns of one of the most devastating epidemics in recorded history, the Black Death of A.D. 1347-351. The goal was to determine whether the epidemic affected all ages equally or if it targeted certain age groups. Analyses were done using a sample of 337 individuals excavated from the East Smithfield cemetery in London, which contains only indi...

The article builds on Badious observation, that black is simultaneously characterized by lack and excess. In the Dark Souls trilogy “dialectics in black” are realized as a law of movement, which structures how game world acquired. games highlight series conflicting temporalities, play experience being-in-the-present. From perspective assemblage, this dynamic temporalities can also be conceptual...

Researchers previously have investigated the role of race in capital sentencing, and in particular, whether the race of the defendant or victim influences the likelihood of a death sentence. In the present study, we examined whether the likelihood of being sentenced to death is influenced by the degree to which a Black defendant is perceived to have a stereotypically Black appearance. Controlli...

Recent research has questioned whether the European Black Death of 1347-1351 could possibly have been caused by the bubonic plague bacillus Yersinia pestis, as has been assumed for over a century. Central to the arguments both for and against involvement of Y. pestis has been a comparison of the temporal dynamics observed in confirmed outbreaks of bubonic plague in early-20th-century India, ver...