The Future of Computerized Decision Support in Critical Care

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Computerized ICU Data Management Pitfalls and Promises

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Patient-Monitoring Systems

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The Jesuit Mission in Ethiopia (16th–17th Centuries): an Analytical Bibliography

The Jesuit mission in Ethiopia was an episode of great importance in the history of Ethiopia and the Portuguese expansion. However, despite the number of studies dedicated to it a bibliography was still missing. This paper tries to fill the gap; it discusses the historiography of the mission, outlines the main themes treated and provides a comprehensive list of secondary literature

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Essentialism as a form of resistance: An ethnography of gender dynamics in contemporary home births

Feminist scholars have criticised the essentialist construction of femininity associated with ‘natural’ childbirth movements. Along these debates, planned midwife-attended home births stand as the typical representation of this counterculture. In this article, we present data from a multi-sited ethnography on Portuguese home births where we analyse how gender ideologies are reproduced and operationalised by families and home birth professionals. Our findings illustrate how home birth care and associated practices are configuring apparently contradicting gender ideologies. Essentialist perspectives, which conceive birth as an opportunity to reconnect with women's oppressed femininity, coexist with non-binary conceptions of gender, where masculinity and femininity are regarded as fluid forms of energy that everyone has in different degrees, and where men are potentially welcomed in the birth setting, either as fathers or as professionals. Given the androcentric references of modern obstetrics and the marginal position of home birth, we argue that essentialism was constructed as a form of resistance.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

The Jesuits in Ethiopia: Missionary Methods and Local Responses to Catholicism (1555–1632)

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