Palestinian suicide bombing/martyrdom speaks both to the symbolic significance of the human body and also to the connections that this form of violence has to religious and interconnected political authorities and influences. This article examines these religiously and politically inspired events using an analysis of emotion and body, placing particular emphasis on their mediation through cultu...

Bully/victim problems among school children are a matter ofconsiderable concern in Scandinavia and, more recently, in a number of other countries as well. Estimates based on the author's large-scale surveys indicate that some 9% ofthe students in grades 1 through 9 are fairly regular victims ofbullying and that 6-7% engage in bullying others with some regularity. It is argued that it is a funda...

Although Washington alleges that he was subjected to an offensive and unwanted touching [by a male guard who snuck up behind him and groped his genitals, kissed him on the mouth despite resistance, and threatened oral sex], he alleges only momentary pain, “psychological injury,” embarrassment, humiliation, and fear. These de minimis injuries do not rise to the level of constitutional harms, and...

“If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations then so much worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collap...

This manuscript used large-scale survey data to examine the prevalence and risk factors for intimate partner violence (IPV) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We examine three forms of IPV: physical, sexual and emotional. The data show that two of every five women and more than one quarter of the men had reportedly ever experienced physical form of IPV while one quarter of women and...

Everybody knows what stress is and nobody knows what it is. The word stress, like success, failure, or happiness, means different things to different people and, except for a few specialized scientists, no one has really tried to define it although it has become part of our daily vocabulary. Is it effort, fatigue, pain, fear, the need for concentration, the humiliation of censure, loss of blood...

BACKGROUND Medical education research in general, and those focusing on clinical settings in particular, have been a low priority in South Asia. This explorative study from 3 medical schools in Sri Lanka, a South Asian country, describes undergraduate medical students' experiences during their final year clinical training with the aim of understanding the teaching-learning experiences. METHOD...