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The sons of Remus : identity in Roman Gaul and Spain
Histories of ancient Rome have long emphasized the ways in which the empire assimilated the societies it conquered, bringing civilization to the supposed barbarians. Yet interpretations of this \"Romanization\" of Western Europe tend to erase local identities and traditions from the historical picture, leaving us with an incomplete understanding of the diverse cultures that flourished in the provinces far from Rome. The Sons of Remus recaptures the experiences, memories, and discourses of the societies that made up the variegated patchwork fabric of the western provinces of the Roman Empire. Focusing on Gaul and Spain, Andrew Johnston explores how the inhabitants of these provinces, though they willingly adopted certain Roman customs and recognized imperial authority, never became exclusively Roman. Their self-representations in literature, inscriptions, and visual art reflect identities rooted in a sense of belonging to indigenous communities. Provincials performed shifting roles for different audiences, rehearsing traditions at home while subverting Roman stereotypes of druids and rustics abroad. Deriving keen insights from ancient sources--travelers' records, myths and hero cults, timekeeping systems, genealogies, monuments--Johnston shows how the communities of Gaul and Spain balanced their local identities with their status as Roman subjects, as they preserved a cultural memory of their pre-Roman past and wove their own narratives into Roman mythology. The Romans saw themselves as the heirs of Romulus, the legendary founder of the eternal city; from the other brother, the provincials of the west received a complicated inheritance, which shaped the history of the sons of Remus.-- Provided by publisher
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Carnival in Trinidad
This essay focuses on the Pierrot and the Pisse-en-lit Carnival characters during the 1880s and 1890s. Pierrots rambled on about recondite events; spelled out convoluted words in a show of their supposed wisdom; and brawled with other Pierrots to commandeer streets. As to the Pisse-en-lit, these often-transvested revelers displayed bloodied clothes; exposed their underwear to passers-by; simulated sexual intercourse; carried chamber pots on their heads; and/or held sticks protruding from between their legs. The article outlines Trinidad’s historical context and features sections on both the Pierrot and the Pisse-en-lit, followed by a brief conclusion. The Pierrot and the Pisse-en-lit were part of an unsettled cultural arena which was adjusting to unbridled migration to the cities, the consolidation of a Black middle class, and the growth of Victorian morality. Both born from and broken by the conditions of the nineteenth century, the figures emerged out of fraught circumstances, meeting their demise as those circumstances decisively shifted.
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Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia
In Culture and Society in Medieval Galicia, twenty-three international authors examine art, religion, literature, and politics to chart Galicia's changing place in Iberia, Europe, and the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds from late antiquity through the thirteenth century.
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The mark of rebels : indios fronterizos and Mexican independence
\"This work explores social and cultural transformations among the indigenous communities of western Mexico, especially the indios fronterizos (Frontier Indians), preceding and during the struggle for independence\"--Provided by publisher.
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Planning Responds to Gender Violence: Evidence from Spain, Mexico and the United States
Urban planning has been largely ineffective in addressing urban violence and particularly slow in responding to gender violence. This paper explores the public and private divide, structural inequalities, and issues of ethnicity and citizenship, in terms of their planning implications for gender violence. Drawing on evidence from Spain, Mexico and the United States, it examines how economic and social planning and gender violence intertwine. The three case studies demonstrate that the challenge is not only to break constructed structural inequalities and divisions between public and private spheres, but also to promote changes in the working models of institutions and organisations.
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Literacy-adapted, electronic family history assessment for genetics referral in primary care: patient user insights from qualitative interviews
Background
Risk assessment for hereditary cancer syndromes is recommended in primary care, but family history is rarely collected in enough detail to facilitate risk assessment and referral – a roadblock that disproportionately impacts individuals with healthcare access barriers. We sought to qualitatively assess a literacy-adapted, electronic patient-facing family history tool developed for use in diverse, underserved patient populations recruited in the Cancer Health Assessments Reaching Many (CHARM) Study.
Methods
Interview participants were recruited from a subpopulation of CHARM participants who experienced barriers to tool use in terms of spending a longer time to complete the tool, having incomplete attempts, and/or providing inaccurate family history in comparison to a genetic counselor-collected standard. We conducted semi-structured interviews with participants about barriers and facilitators to tool use and overall tool acceptability; interviews were recorded and professionally transcribed. Transcripts were coded based on a codebook developed using inductive techniques, and coded excerpts were reviewed to identify overarching themes related to barriers and facilitators to family history self-assessment and acceptability of the study tool.
Results
Interviewees endorsed the tool as easy to navigate and understand. However, they described barriers related to family history information, literacy and language, and certain tool functions. Participants offered concrete, easy-to-implement solutions to each barrier. Despite experience barriers to use of the tool, most participants indicated that electronic family history self-assessment was acceptable or preferable in comparison to clinician-collected family history.
Conclusions
Even for participants who experienced barriers to tool use, family history self-assessment was considered an acceptable alternative to clinician-collected family history. Barriers experienced could be overcome with minor adaptations to the current family history tool.
Trial registration
This study is a sub-study of the Cancer Health Assessments Reaching Many (CHARM) trial, ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03426878. Registered 8 February 2018.
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The Ethics of Care in Disaster Contexts from a Gender and Intersectional Perspective
Feminist reflections on the sexual division of labour have given rise to a body of knowledge on the ethics of care from different disciplines, including philosophy, in which outstanding contributions to the topic have been formulated. This approach is applicable to the analysis of any phenomenon and particularly that of disasters. As various investigations have highlighted, the consequences on the population throughout all of a disaster’s phases (prevention, emergency, and reconstruction) require an analysis of differentiated vulnerabilities based on gender and other identity categories, such as social class, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual identity, etc. The interrelation between all these variables gives rise to differentiated impacts that cannot be ignored in catastrophic contexts, where survival and sustaining life are at stake, so care becomes a central issue. Research on the topic has also identified that, along with the analysis of social vulnerability, we must consider the capacity for agency, both individual and collective, where care is once again of vital importance. Considering the gender approach and its multiple intersections is thus a fundamental theoretical-practical proposal for the study of disasters from philosophy, as it implies an unavoidable epistemic, ontological, and ethical reflection in the face of risk reduction.
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Characteristics and clinical outcomes of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus initiating anifrolumab in a real-world setting in Spain (AZAHAR study): an observational study protocol
IntroductionAnifrolumab (Saphnelo) is approved for adult patients with moderate-severe systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Considering its commercialisation in Spain in 2023, observational studies describing the use of anifrolumab in routine clinical practice are limited. The aim of the AZAHAR study is to describe the characteristics and clinical outcomes of patients with SLE who initiated anifrolumab during its first year of marketing in Spain.Methods and analysisThis is an observational retrospective study including ~120 patients with moderate-severe SLE who received anifrolumab in Spain in 20 centres from 1 June 2023 to 31 May 2024. Patients will be followed up every 6 months after the first infusion of anifrolumab for a period between 6 and 18 months until the end of the study (31 December 2024). Data will be obtained through the review of medical records, considering as primary outcomes disease activity measured by Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index (SLEDAI) 2000, clinical SLEDAI, Physician Global Assessment and Lupus Low Disease Activity State and remission, defined by Definitions of Remission in SLE-21, and as secondary outcomes, SLE treatment, flare incidence, anifrolumab adherence and persistence (time on treatment) and healthcare resources utilisation.Ethics and disseminationThe final protocol of the study will be approved by ethics committees/institutional review boards (IRB)/independent ethics committees at each site.Trial registration numberNCT06626945.
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(Jewish) Women's Narratives of Caring and Medical Practices During the Spanish Civil War
This article investigates the feminist memory of the Spanish Civil War, focusing on two relevant cases from the Jewish/non-Jewish Spanish-speaking world—those of Micaela Feldman Etchebehere and Marie Glas Langer. Both, the former a libertarian and the latter a communist, were involved in medical practices and authored personal narratives of caring in which the gender issue constitutes a key element. The analysis of Feldman's and Glas's caring practices exposed in these texts follows literary research methodologies. It focuses on the reconstruction of autobiographical narratives, centered on topics of medical practice and caring, intersected by the “female” condition and by feminist propositions.
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