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Non-small cell lung carcinoma in an adolescent manifested by acute paraplegia due to spinal metastases: a case report
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Bronchial carcinomas in childhood and adolescence are extremely rare; only individual cases have been reported previously.</p> <p>Case presentation</p> <p>We report on a 16-year-old Caucasian German boy with non-small cell lung carcinoma (squamous cell non-small cell lung carcinoma) stage IV, T4N2M1, without epidermal growth factor receptor overexpression and/or mutation or k-ras mutation. He presented with paraplegia due to spinal metastases of the bronchial carcinoma. No familial predisposition or toxin exposure was identified. Treatment following adult protocols consisted of surgical intervention for spinal metastases, first-line cisplatinum and gemcitabine, irradiation and second-line docetaxel. After a transient response our patient experienced disease progression and died about 10 months later.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Response and survival in our 16-year-old patient were similar to adult patients with stage IV non-small cell lung carcinoma.</p
'Keeping busy' as agency in early desistance
Agency in desistance research has often been understood as deliberate action
undertaken in pursuit of a desisting identity. Through a micro-longitudinal
approach, this research focuses on the early desistance experiences of a
number of mainly white British female participants. Agency was exhibited not
with a new identity in mind, but instead through 'keeping busy'. The surprising
lack of identity concerns may be due to the early stages of the participants'
desistance experiences, with new identities emerging later in the process.
Alternatively, it may indicate a fundamental difference to the classic desistance
narrative, linked to the differences between this sample and the frequently
researched, Western, male, high-frequency offender. Finally, important aspects
of the cultures surrounding desistance research may have shaped the
narratives of desisters and the biases of researchers towards finding a concern
for identity when this is not necessarily experienced in the everyday lives of
desisters
Understanding Change in Romantic Relationship Expectations of International Female Students from Turkey
In the light of grounded theory, the authors explored change in romantic relationship expectations of international students. Twelve female graduate students from Turkey were interviewed and several themes were identified explaining the presence and absence of change in participantsâ attitudes toward romantic relationships. The findings are discussed in relation to acculturation and direction for future research is presented
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A critical recuperation of Watsujiâs Rinrigaku
Watsuji is recognised as one Japanâs foremost philosophers. His work on ethics, Rinrigaku, is cosmopolitan in engaging the Western philosophical tradition, and in presupposing an international audience. Yet Watsujiâs ethical thought is largely of niche interest outside Japan, and it is critiqued on the ground that it ratifies totalitarianism, demanding individualsâ unquestioning subordination to communal demands. We offer a reading of Rinrigaku that, in attempting to trace the textâs intention, disputes these arguments. We argue that Rinrigaku makes individual autonomy central to ethical action, despite the fact that its treatment of coercion may lead one to think otherwise; that it does not reduce ethical obligations to whatever demands any given society imposes on its members; that it draws a distinction between socio-ethical orders that are genuinely ethical and those that are not; and that, in insisting on the grounding of individuals in the Absolute, it makes adequate room for individualsâ resistance to unjustifiable socio-ethical demands
Religious pluralism in the United States and Britain
This article provides a historically informed analysis of the contemporary incorporation of Islam and Muslims into an idea of common â national â membership in the United States and Britain. It shows that there is a current movement towards synthesis between religious and national identities by Muslims themselves, and explores the ways in which this synthesis is occurring within rich and dynamic public spheres in societies that have historically included and incorporated other religious groups. The authors argue that both countries are wrestling with the extent to which they accommodate Muslims in ways that allow them to reconcile their faith and citizenship commitments, and that the British âestablishmentâ is no less successful at achieving this than secular republicanism in the US
Religions, Poverty Reduction and Global Development Institutions
Religious traditions have always played a central role in supporting those experiencing poverty, through service delivery as well as the provision of spiritual resources that provide mechanisms for resilience at both the individual and community level. However, the fact that religions can be seen to support social structures and practices that contribute towards inequality and conflict, also underscores a role for religious traditions in creating conditions of poverty. While the Western-led modern global development institutions that have emerged since the Second World War have tended to be secular in nature, over the past decade or so there has been an apparent âturn to religionâ by these global development institutions, as well as in academic development studies. This reflects the realization that modernization and secularization do not necessarily go together, and that religious values and faith actors are important determinants in the drive to reduce poverty, as well as in structures and practices that underpin it. This paper traces three phases of engagement between religions and global development institutions. In phase one, the âpre-secularâ or the âintegrated phaseâ seen during the colonial era, religion and poverty reduction were intimately entwined, with the contemporary global development project being a legacy of this. The second phase is the âsecularâ or the âfragmentedâ phase, and relates to the era of the global development industry, which is founded on the normative secularist position that modernization will and indeed should lead to secularization. The third phase is characterized by the âturn to religionâ from the early 2000s. Drawing the three phases together and reflecting on the nature of the dynamics within the third phase, the âturn to religionâ, this paper is underpinned by two main questions. First, what does this mean for the apparent processes of secularization? Is this evidence that they are being reversed and that we are witnessing the emergence of the âdesecularization of developmentâ or of a âpost-secular development praxisâ? Second, to what extent are FBOs working in development to be defined as neo-liberalismâs âlittle platoonsââshaped by and instrumentalized to the service of secular neo-liberal social, political and economic systems, or do we need to develop a more sophisticated account that can contribute towards better policy and practice around poverty reduction
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