This article examines childbirth in a public maternity hospital in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, from the perspective of young and adolescent women, mostly black and working-class. As an anthropological study, it is based on the analysis of birth narratives and hospital ethnography, especially in the obstetric ward. The women describe labor as dominated by fear, loneliness, and pain. These feelings ...

Right-wing populists have allegedly fueled increasing levels of distrust regarding expert knowledge and empirical evidence. Yet, we know little about how right-wing populist politicians citizens use social media to construct oppose truth claims. Using a qualitative analysis Twitter Facebook posts communicated by supporting ideas in the Netherlands, this article offers in-depth insights into pro...

I review ten problems associated with the dynamical wave function collapse program, which were described in the first of these two papers. Five of these, the interaction, preferred basis, trigger, symmetry and superluminal problems, were discussed as resolved there. In this volume in honor of Abner Shimony, I discuss the five remaining problems, tails, conservation law, experimental, relativity...

Abstract In this paper, we apply relating semantics to the widely discussed problem of free choice between permitted actions or situations in normative systems. Leaving aside contexts which principle is obviously unacceptable (weak permission understood as an absence prohibition) uncontroversially valid (strong within systems with a closed repertoire situations), concentrate on for explicit per...