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Lung
August 2021
Pulmonary and Critical Care Service, Brooke Army Medical Center, JBSA Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, TX, USA.
The case definition of inhalational constrictive bronchiolitis (CB) has changed over the generations. We identify changes in the description of this illness over time associated with different exposures and present the natural history of CB in a case attributed to military burn pit exposure. The initial descriptions of this disease began with nitric acid spills and silage exposures.
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March 2019
Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University. Correspondence to:
Introduction: Rape and sexual torture are frequent experiences among torture survivors, but relatively little is known about how victims respond to and find meaning in these experiences.
Method: This study used secondary qualitative interview data from 47 male and female Shi'a Arab victims and survivors of sexual torture and rape in Saddam Hussein's Iraq to examine how sexual torture affected them, what were the barriers to healing, how they found meaning in their experiences, and how their experiences varied by gender.
Results: Respondents experienced profound psychological effects that lasted for years, including: shame, feeling broken and prematurely aged, and wanting to isolate themselves from others.
Studying the varieties of welfare can offer surprising insights in the workings and tensions of Islamist social movements in such major countries as Iran, Egypt, and Turkey. Based on extensive fieldwork and (for Iran) the batteries of socio-economic data, the recent monographs of sociologists Kevan Harris and Cihan Tuğal offer a high-resolution yet panoramic overview. Harris re-positions the Iranian historical 'improvisation called Islamic Republic' as the 'warfare/welfare state' forged in the sacrificial defense against Saddam Hussein's onslaught in the 1980s.
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July 2017
Middle East Centre, London School of Economics, London, UK.
In August 1990, Saddam Hussein's army invaded Kuwait and consequently the United Nations imposed economic sanctions on Iraq. In 1991, an international military alliance expelled the Iraqi army from Kuwait during a short war. Nevertheless, the economic sanctions remained in place-their removal required that Iraq should destroy its weapons of mass destruction.
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