scholarly journals Biomedical packages

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Brives
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Therapeutic Drug ◽  
Child Transmission ◽  
Biomedical Technology ◽  
Pharmaceutical Substance ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Mother To Child

Clinical trials are a fundamental stage in a drug’s biography for they provide the standard by which a molecule’s therapeutic status is determined. Through this process of experimentation, a pharmaceutical substance acquires a new competence – that of treating or preventing disease. This article examines experimentation in drug production, and shows how this complex apparatus not only transforms the status of the molecule but also produces new understandings of and expectations for how people should act. Drawing upon observation of a trial of prophylactic prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, I show that the production of this biomedical technology – the therapeutic drug – is coupled with the production of its users. In so doing, I challenge the conception of drugs as bounded objects and instead offer the concept of ‘biomedical package’, which highlights the social relations that characterise it.

Artfully thinking the prosocial

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Warr ◽  
Gretel Taylor ◽  
Richard Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Form Part ◽  
The Status

This chapter explores how arts-based activities form part of an experimental approach for social research that fuses sociological insights with creative practice. As an ethos, people conceive the prosocial as seeking to promote collective human flourishing, while a prosocial practice is inclusive and imaginative. The potential to flourish is supported by involvement in diverse social relations that connect people as families, friends, communities, neighbourhoods, and nations. Experiences of social collectivity, however, are being shredded through the expanding dominance, and cascading impacts, of market-oriented ideologies. The chapter shows how the status of the social as a nonmarket domain has little value or sense when seen from within these dominant ideological framings.

Effective program against mother-to-child transmission of HIV at Saint Camille Medical Centre in Burkina Faso

2007 ◽  
Vol 79 (7) ◽  
pp. 873-879 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Simpore ◽  
V. Pietra ◽  
S. Pignatelli ◽  
D. Karou ◽  
W.M.C. Nadembega ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Medical Centre ◽  
Mother To Child Transmission ◽  
Child Transmission ◽  
Effective Program ◽  
Mother To Child

scholarly journals Prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV: a review of the achievements and challenges in Burkina-Faso

2019 ◽  
Vol Volume 11 ◽  
pp. 165-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laure Stella Ghoma Linguissi ◽  
Tani Sagna ◽  
Serge Théophile Soubeiga ◽  
Luc Christian Gwom ◽  
Céline Nguefeu Nkenfou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Mother To Child Transmission ◽  
Child Transmission ◽  
Mother To Child

scholarly journals Women in the "Kerangkeng" of Tradition: the Study on the Status of Women in Minangkabau

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 369-385
Author(s):  
Welhendri Azwar
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Patriarchal Ideology ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Control ◽  
Biological Differences ◽  
Status Of Women

The system of values, norms and some stereotypes attached to women are one of the factors that giving influences on the position and relationships of women with men in the existing social structure. Each person embraces the system of values or norm which is a consensus and constructed by the community itself than from generation to generation. The emergence of social construction on the status and role of women is the result of the perspective of a community towards their biological differences between men and women. The perspective which then results in oppression, exploitation, and subordination of women in social relations are contextually strongly related to socio-cultural conditions at that time. This section will discuss how women are positioned in the social life and the perspective of the culture of its subordination. Next, it is also described how the emergence of patriarchal ideology, a system that accommodates the interests of men to dominate and control women, as a consequence of the understanding of the nature of women which biologically different to men. The hegemony of patriarchal ideology brings the social awareness for women to accept the conditions of subordination as a natural thing, which is wrapped by the products of culture and tradition. It includes how patriarchal ideology is giving the effect on the system and the tradition of marriage.

Reduction of mother-to-child transmission of HIV at Saint Camille Medical Centre in Burkina Faso

2005 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Simpore ◽  
V. Pietra ◽  
A. Savadogo ◽  
S. Pignatelli ◽  
J.B. Nikiema ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Medical Centre ◽  
Mother To Child Transmission ◽  
Child Transmission ◽  
Mother To Child

scholarly journals The Emergence of Team Creativity

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-154
Author(s):  
Yingjie Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Team Creativity ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Evolving Networks ◽  
Creativity Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Processes ◽  
The Status ◽  
Core Concepts

Viewing teams as evolving networks of intertwined social relations, the social network perspective has been increasingly adopted to understand the emergence of team creativity in the past decades. This network lens enables creativity scholars to accurately depict how creative inputs embedded in team structures combine to take effects in collective processes and eventually form team creative outcomes in a dynamic fashion. Yet applications of this network view in team creativity research are scarce, and not closely linked to the development of social network theories. Therefore, after introducing the core concepts and principles of social network theories, this chapter reviews the status quo of team creativity research in terms of three components—creative inputs, team structure, and creative processes from a social network perspective. Furthermore, this chapter puts forward three key directions for future studies on the emergence of team creativity—specialization, integration, and dynamics.

scholarly journals Si-Based Hydrogen-Producing Nanoagent Protects Fetuses From Miscarriage Caused by Mother-to-Child Transmission

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noriyoshi Usui ◽  
Shogo Togawa ◽  
Takuya Sumi ◽  
Yuki Kobayashi ◽  
Yoshihisa Koyama ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Viral Infections ◽  
Neutrophil Infiltration ◽  
The Body ◽  
Therapeutic Drug ◽  
Mother To Child Transmission ◽  
Child Transmission ◽  
Pregnant Mice ◽  
Inflammatory Immune Response ◽  
Anti Inflammatory ◽  
Mother To Child

Mother-to-child transmission of viruses and bacteria increases the risk of miscarriage and various diseases in children. Such transmissions can result in infections and diseases in infants or the induction of an inflammatory immune response through the placenta. Recently, we developed a silicon (Si)-based hydrogen-producing nanoagent (Si-based agent) that continuously and effectively produces hydrogen in the body. Since medical hydrogen has antioxidative, anti-inflammatory, antiallergic, and antiapoptotic effects, we investigated the effects of our Si-based agent on mother-to-child transmission, with a focus on the rate of miscarriage. In pregnant mice fed a diet containing the Si-based agent, lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced miscarriage due to mother-to-child transmission was reduced and inflammation and neutrophil infiltration in the placenta were suppressed. We also found that the Si-based agent suppressed IL-6 expression in the placenta and induced the expression of antioxidant and antiapoptotic genes, such as Hmox1 and Ptgs2. The observed anti-inflammatory effects of the Si-based agent suggest that it may be an effective preventative or therapeutic drug for miscarriage or threatened miscarriage during pregnancy by suppressing maternal inflammation caused by bacterial and viral infections.

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