Publications by authors named "J R Waldram"
"Backing Weakness:" Conceptualizations of Q'Eqchi' Women's Vulnerability in Belize.
Med Anthropol
August 2022
Q'eqchi' women's health is the product of inherent, acquired, and induced vulnerabilities that inform an idiom of "weakness" characteristic of women compared to men, reflecting both biological difference and gender-specific demands placed upon them within the context of village life. While women are understood to be uniquely vulnerable to sickness - their "weakness" - they demonstrate great strength and vigor to perform culturally prescribed roles, such as "backing" heavy loads. A framework grounded in Indigenous culture and ideology interprets Q'eqchi' understandings of women's health and broader position within society, arguing the need to take seriously Indigenous explanatory frameworks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSusto is one of the most common disorders referenced in the medical anthropological and cultural psychiatric literature. This article questions if "susto" as understood in cultural psychiatric terms, especially in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM), is in fact a single "cultural concept of distress." There is extensive cross-cultural and intracultural variability regarding fright-related disorders in the ethnographic literature.
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- High magnetic fields in cuprate superconductors are used to suppress superconductivity, revealing an underlying normal state with complex resistivity behaviors.
- Researchers employed microwave measurements to examine charge transport in YBa₂Cu₃O₆+y and Tl₂Ba₂CuO₆+δ, focusing on the low-temperature and low-field region of the superconducting phase.
- The persistent transition from metallic resistivity to a log(1/T) upturn throughout various doping levels suggests that this log(1/T) behavior indicates the presence of d-wave superconducting order, potentially reflecting a free-flux-flow regime in disordered d-wave superconductors.
Background: Aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD) is characterized by chronic eosinophilic rhinosinusitis, nasal polyps, asthma, and respiratory sensitivity to aspirin and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). In addition to sensitivity to aspirin and NSAIDs, the majority of patients with AERD have been reported to have respiratory intolerance associated with the consumption of alcohol.
Methods: A multicenter prospective cohort study was performed.