Introduction and objective: Workers contend with many threats while performing their daily routine that could undermine dignity, such as denigrating comments from supervisors or co-workers. Denying workers’ dignity constitutes a direct threat towards well-being. The aim of this paper is to adapt validate the Spanish version Workplace Dignity Scale (WDS). Method: An instrumental design was execu...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the perception Sri Lankan female consumers towards objectification women in advertising and what are their ideas about brands that practice objectification.
 Design/methodology/approach: follows an inductive approach applies a qualitative research design. Semi-structured interviews were used for data collection.
 Findings: Findings have...

Many objectification phenomena can be understood from a mind-body dualism perspective in which the more people focus on their bodies, the less they focus on their minds. Instead of viewing mind and body in opposition to each other, we advocate for a more reciprocal view in which mind and body work in conjunction. Consistent with an integrated mind-body approach, we begin our review by describin...

A series of governance issues currently surrounds the multiple uses and multiple users of dried blood spots (DBS) for research purposes. Internationally there is a discussion on storing DBS resulting from newborn screening for public health and using them as the basis for large biobank-like collections to facilitate biomedical research. If such a transformation were to be formalized, then DBS w...