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Crim Behav Ment Health
January 2025
Department of Criminology, Law and Society, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
December 2024
Post-doctoral fellow, Graduate Program in History/Universidade Federal Fluminense. Niterói - RJ - Brazil
The article addresses the British sanitary movement in the 1830s and 1840s, analyzing the ideology that permeated official efforts to promote public health. The sources used consist primarily of the inquiries carried out by royal commissions into the state of sanitation in towns and cities. The main argument is that the ideological assumptions underpinning these inquiries can be understood as part of a political economy of public health, within which tensions can be observed arising from the contradictions between a liberal perspective and the need for greater intervention on the part of the government.
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November 2024
Department of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
In an era marked by escalating international crises, environmental shifts, and sociopolitical volatilities, global mental health is facing profound challenges. With its distinctive position at the intersection between clinical and judicial domains, forensic psychiatry can be predisposed to the consequences of adverse external determinants and events. At present, geopolitical conflicts, rising insecurities, climate change, forced and voluntary migration, and regressive sociopolitical ideologies are all compounding role responsibilities, care models, and ethical expectations across forensic-psychiatric practice; in short, complex distal factors are increasingly informing domestic considerations.
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December 2024
College of Social Work, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.
For many political constitutionalists, the ordinary democratic process should be the constitution; constitutional entrenchment and strong-form judicial review should be avoided. But how is ordinary democratic politics understood by political constitutionalists? To answer this question, this article engages in an interpretative inquiry to delineate four distinct ideological readings of political constitutionalism-democratic socialist, liberal, republican and conservative-that are alive within the existing literature. It does so to explain how these readings articulate subtly different understandings of ordinary democratic politics.
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