Book Reviews : Polish Studies Shtetl. The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Polish Jews. By Eva Hoffman. London: Secker and Warburg, 1998. Pp. 269. £16.99. A Girl from Schindler's List. By Stella Müller-Madej. Tr. by William R. Brand. London: Polish Cultural Foundation, 1997. Pp. 278 and Photographs

Uğur Ümit Üngör, The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 352 pp. (ISBN: 9780199603602).Mohammed M. A. Ahmed, Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 294 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-137-03407-6), (paper). Ofra Bengio, The Kurds of Iraq: Building a State within a State. Boulder, CO and London, UK: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012, xiv + 346 pp., (ISBN 978-1-58826-836-5), (hardcover). Cengiz Gunes, The Kurdish National Movement in Turkey, from Protest to Resistance, London: Routledge, 2012, 256 pp., (ISBN: 978-0-415—68047-9). Aygen, Gülşat, Kurmanjî Kurdish. Languages of the World/Materials 468, München: Lincom Europa, 2007, 92 pp., (ISBN: 9783895860706), (paper).Barzoo Eliassi, Contesting Kurdish Identities in Sweden: Quest for Belonging among Middle Eastern Youth, Oxford: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 234 pp. (ISBN: 9781137282071).

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Acta Oeconomica ◽

10.1556/aoecon.56.2006.4.5 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 56 (4) ◽

pp. 455-468

Author(s):

Zoltán Ádám ◽

László Csaba ◽

András Bakács ◽

Zoltán Pogátsa

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Fiscal Policy ◽

Monetary Union ◽

Economic And Monetary Union ◽

European Studies ◽

Eu Accession ◽

East European ◽

The World ◽

The Government

István Csillag - Péter Mihályi: Kettős kötés: A stabilizáció és a reformok 18 hónapja [Double Bandage: The 18 Months of Stabilisation and Reforms] (Budapest: Globális Tudás Alapítvány, 2006, 144 pp.) Reviewed by Zoltán Ádám; Marco Buti - Daniele Franco: Fiscal Policy in Economic and Monetary Union. Theory, Evidence and Institutions (Cheltenham/UK - Northampton/MA/USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Co., 2005, 320 pp.) Reviewed by László Csaba; Piotr Jaworski - Tomasz Mickiewicz (eds): Polish EU Accession in Comparative Perspective: Macroeconomics, Finance and the Government (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College of London, 2006, 171 pp.) Reviewed by András Bakács; Is FDI Based R&D Really Growing in Developing Countries? The World Investment Report 2005. Reviewed by Zoltán Pogátsa

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Interrupted Work: Tales from Half-Asia: Small-Town Galicians Encounter the World

Prooftexts ◽

10.2979/prooftexts.37.3.11 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 469

Author(s):

Bartov

Keyword(s):

Small Town ◽

The World

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Histórias escritas com sangue: Uma análise de processos judiciários de assassinatos de mulheres em Goiânia (1970-1984)

10.31012/978-65-5861-021-2 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Neide Célia Ferreira Barros

Keyword(s):

Power Relations ◽

Case Reports ◽

Border Region ◽

Life And Death ◽

Country Life ◽

The World ◽

Gender Power

This book analyzes the criminal processes of homicides or attempted homicides of women in Goiânia during the period of 1970-1984. We observed the gender power relations in the capital of Goiás, a border region, a mixture of country life elements and discourses of modernity. Hence, through case reports of women who suffered attacks on their lives in a period of intense changes, such as the organization of feminist groups in Brazil and the world, political and economic repercussions of the construction of Brasília in Goiás and mass immigration to Goiânia, we have pursued to understand what it meant socially to "be a man" and "to be a woman" in this capital and what consequences were brought into their bodies, concerning life and death, protection and punishment.

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Barriers to the Use of Neurologic Criteria to Declare Death in Africa

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® ◽

10.1177/10499091211006921 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 104990912110069

Author(s):

Ariane Lewis ◽

Andrew Kumpfbeck ◽

Jordan Liebman ◽

Sam D. Shemie ◽

Gene Sung ◽

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Keyword(s):

Brain Death ◽

Legal Framework ◽

Developing Regions ◽

Healthcare Facilities ◽

Life And Death ◽

The World ◽

Religious Perspectives ◽

World Brain ◽

The Creation ◽

Death By Neurologic Criteria

There are varying medical, legal, social, religious and philosophical perspectives about the distinction between life and death. Death can be declared using cardiopulmonary or neurologic criteria throughout much of the world. After solicitation of brain death/death by neurologic criteria (BD/DNC) protocols from contacts around the world, we found that the percentage of countries with BD/DNC protocols is much lower in Africa than other developing regions. We performed an informal review of the literature to identify barriers to declaration of BD/DNC in Africa. We found that there are numerous medical, legal, social and religious barriers to the creation of BD/DNC protocols in Africa including 1) limited number of healthcare facilities, critical care resources and clinicians with relevant expertise; 2) absence of a political and legal framework codifying death; and 3) cultural and religious perspectives that present ideological conflict with the idea of BD/DNC, in particular, and between traditional and Western medicine, in general. Because there are a number of unique barriers to the creation of BD/DNC protocols in Africa, it remains to be seen how the World Brain Death Project, which is intended to create minimum standards for BD/DNC around the world, will impact BD/DNC determination in Africa.

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