Souffrances sociales, parler ordinaire, imaginaires religieux et expression politique

Suffering has always been intimately related to speech and no power has been able to separate it from ordinary language. However, in the last 15 years, be it in the fields of medicine, anthropology, humanitarian work or religious studies, the discourse on social suffering has become an expert’s discourse. Having held together religion in both its popular and learned forms, Christianity has long prevented this separation. Paradoxically, the proselytism that characterizes evangelical movements constitutes a new way of resisting this separation of suffering from ordinary language. Conformist in their approach, the new religious image-makers have progressively accustomed a part of the population to ignoring the order of things put into place by juridico-political image-makers. Ordinary men and women are thereby prompted to express social doubts in everday language. Suffering is thereby reappropriated as social suffering, and new political spaces are thereby created.

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Medical aspects of the Uqhd hospital

International Review of the Red Cross ◽

10.1017/s0020860400011165 ◽

1965 ◽

Vol 5 (55) ◽

pp. 528-537

Keyword(s):

Daily Life ◽

Point Of View ◽

Red Cross ◽

Field Hospital ◽

Men And Women ◽

International Conference ◽

Humanitarian Work

We have on several occasions mentioned the activity in the field hospital installed by the ICRC at Uqhd in the Yemeni desert. Last April we published an article entitled “A day at the Uqhd Field Hospital“ by a nurse who worked there in 1964 and who described her daily life at Uqhd and the continuous difficulties encountered and which are still being encountered by the men and women carrying out this humanitarian work in conditions which the climate and the isolation render particularly arduous.It was of interest to draw up a report describing this action, but above all from the medical point of view presenting a rapid summary of two years' work. This report, which the ICRC will be submitting to the XXth International Conference of the Red Cross, is now given below

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Meanings of quality of life held by patients with colorectal cancer in the context of chemotherapy

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem ◽

10.1590/0104-1169.0455.2572 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 427-434 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Luciana Scatralhe Buetto ◽

Marcia Maria Fontão Zago

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Colorectal Cancer ◽

Side Effects ◽

Medical Anthropology ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Transitional Stage ◽

Social Suffering ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Men And Women

OBJECTIVE: this study's aim was to interpret the meanings assigned to quality of life by patients with colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy.METHOD: the ethnographic method and the medical anthropology theoretical framework were used. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and participant observations with 16 men and women aged from 43 to 75 years old undergoing chemotherapy in a university hospital.RESULTS: the meanings and senses describe biographical ruptures, loss of normality of life, personal and social suffering, and the need to respond to chemotherapy's side effects; chemotherapy is seen as a transitional stage for a cure. Quality of life is considered unsatisfactory because the treatment imposes personal and social limitations and QoL is linked to resuming normal life.CONCLUSIONS: the meanings show the importance of considering sociocultural aspects in the conceptualization and assessment of quality of life.

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Every question is open: Looking for paths beyond the clearing

Critical Research on Religion ◽

10.1177/2050303216676529 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 260-266

Author(s):

Robert A Orsi

Keyword(s):

Religious Studies ◽

The Other ◽

Religious Practices ◽

Men And Women ◽

Fault Lines ◽

Scholarly Inquiry

However challenging scholars of religion find it to talk across their respective subfields, they are responsible for doing so in order to consider future trajectories for research in religious studies. This contribution to the symposium considers what a 2014 seminar of younger scholars of religion see as urgent problems and issues in religious studies today in order to open a conversation about what is left of religion after “religion.” How do we approach the lived religious practices of men and women in particular times and places after the historical deconstruction of “religion” as the object of scholarly inquiry from modernity to the present? Do scholars of religion in the humanities, on one hand, and sociologists of religion, on the other, recognize their respective subfields in this discussion of problems and questions? This article is offered as a diagnostic to chart the fault lines between divergent methods and theories.

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The Qur’ān Recited

Middle East Studies Association Bulletin ◽

10.1017/s0026318400027267 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 169-171 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mahmoud Ayoub

Keyword(s):

Religious Studies ◽

Vital Role ◽

Muslim Community ◽

Universities And Colleges ◽

Men And Women ◽

Cultural Life ◽

The World ◽

Sacred Scripture ◽

Compact Disks ◽

The Impact

Until recently, the Qur’ān has been treated in the curricula of Western universities and colleges as a historical and literary document. Little attention was paid to the Qur’ān as a sacred scripture and the vital role it continues to play in the spiritual, social and cultural lives of millions of men and women around the world. Even scantier attention was paid to the place of the Qur’ān in the development of the art of music.As interest is growing in the impact of the Qur’ān on the devotional and cultural life of the Muslim community, greater attention is given to the various sciences of the Qur’ān, including the highly developed art of Qur’ān recitation. This brief essay introduces students of Islamic and religious studies to four well-known modern representatives of this art whose recitations are readily available on audio cassettes, disks or compact disks. A few introductory remarks on the development of this art may provide a useful background for the discussion.

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Ultrastructural comparison of prolactin adenomas of pituitary in men and women

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100103796 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

pp. 346-347

Author(s):

R.C. Caughey ◽

U.P. Kalyan-Raman

Keyword(s):

Endoplasmic Reticulum ◽

Electron Microscope ◽

Phosphate Buffer ◽

Pituitary Adenomas ◽

Osmium Tetroxide ◽

Secretory Granules ◽

Uranyl Acetate ◽

En Bloc ◽

Men And Women ◽

Transmission Electron

Prolactin producing pituitary adenomas are ultrastructurally characterized by secretory granules varying in size (150-300nm), abundance of endoplasmic reticulum, and misplaced exocytosis. They are also subclassified as sparsely or densely granulated according to the amount of granules present. The hormone levels in men and women vary, being higher in men; so also the symptoms vary between both sexes. In order to understand this variation, we studied 21 prolactin producing pituitary adenomas by transmission electron microscope. This was out of a total of 80 pituitary adenomas. There were 6 men and 15 women in this group of 21 prolactinomas.All of the pituitary adenomas were fixed in 2.5% glutaraldehyde, rinsed in Millonig's phosphate buffer, and post fixed with 1% osmium tetroxide. They were then en bloc stained with 0.5% uranyl acetate, rinsed with Walpole's non-phosphate buffer, dehydrated with graded series of ethanols and embedded with Epon 812 epoxy resin.

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Race Difference in Auditory Sensitivity

Journal of Speech and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/jshr.0704.389 ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 389-393 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

David C. Shepherd ◽

Robert Goldstein ◽

Benjamin Rosenblüt

Keyword(s):

White Women ◽

White Men ◽

Sensitivity Study ◽

Auditory Sensitivity ◽

Race Difference ◽

Men And Women ◽

Auditory Thresholds ◽

Békésy Audiometry ◽

Method Of Adjustment ◽

Better Than

Two separate studies investigated race and sex differences in normal auditory sensitivity. Study I measured thresholds at 500, 1000, and 2000 cps of 23 white men, 26 white women, 21 negro men, and 24 negro women using the method of limits. In Study II thresholds of 10 white men, 10 white women, 10 negro men, and 10 negro women were measured at 1000 cps using four different stimulus conditions and the method of adjustment by means of Bekesy audiometry. Results indicated that the white men and women in Study I heard significantly better than their negro counterparts at 1000 and 2000 cps. There were no significant differences between the average thresholds measured at 1000 cps of the white and negro men in Study II. White women produced better auditory thresholds with three stimulus conditions and significantly more sensitive thresholds with the slow pulsed stimulus than did the negro women in Study II.

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