Moral Inequity in Organ Donation: An Examination of Age-Based Denial.

The decision to donate an organ is often the decision to save a loved one's life. Frequently recognized as an ultimate act of altruism, a person's choice to donate is embedded in their right to make decisions about their own body and well-being, free of coercion. To ensure donors are truly acting out of altruism, transplant professionals will not allow someone to donate if there are concerns of duress or inability to consent.

Bone Fracture History in Women With First Episode or With Persistent Anorexia Nervosa.

Objective: To investigate fractures history in women with first episode anorexia nervosa (AN) (FE-AN: ≤ 3 years duration) and those with persistent AN (P-AN: ≥ 7 years), compared to healthy controls (HC).

Method: One hundred nineteen women (FE-AN = 49, P-AN = 46 and HC = 24) completed online questionnaires on eating disorders symptoms, their menstrual and their fracture history.

Results: Average illness duration was 1.

Albert Piette and lived (non-)religion: Conceptual and methodological considerations.

This article considers how the work of Albert Piette can enhance a sociological understanding of religion as lived in everyday life. Although Piette is critical of sociologists in (1999), his work resonates with scholarship on 'lived religion' by contemporary sociologists of religion. This article locates points of overlap and divergence between Piette and scholars of lived religion, and then turns its attention towards the emergent study of lived non-religion.

Toward equality: Including non-human animals in studies of lived religion and nonreligion.

This article explores how sociologists of religion can respond to 'the animal turn' in studies of lived religion and nonreligion. We begin by considering how sociology has neglected the place of non-human animals and the 'more than human' in social life. We then turn to the sociology of religion, where animals have often been devalued or ignored as irrelevant to understanding religion in society.