Sex Trafficking and Moral Harm: Politicised Understandings and Depictions of the Trafficked Experience

This paper explores notions of harm in sex work discourse, highlighting the extent to which essentialist ideas of ‘good’ versus ‘bad’ sex have pervaded trafficking policy. In a comparative examination of Australian Parliamentary Inquiries and United States congressional hearings leading to the establishment of anti-trafficking policy, we identify the stories that have influenced legislators, and established a narrative of trafficking heavily dependent upon assumptions of the inherent harm of sex work. This narrative constructs a hierarchy of victimisation, which denies alternative discourses of why women migrate for sex work. We argue that it is not sexual commerce that is harmful, but pathological, systemic inequalities and entrenched disadvantage that are harmful. A narrow narrative of trafficking fails to adequately depict this complexity of the trafficked experience.     

老年人交通事故精神伤残鉴定的临床特征分析

目的探讨老年人交通事故受伤后精神伤残鉴定临床特征。方法对109例老年人发生交通事故受伤后精神伤残司法鉴定资料进行回顾性分析,并与非老年组进行对照研究。结果老年人多为被动性损伤、受伤后颅内血肿发生率高、致残的原因88．07％是智能及精神障碍所致,损伤程度及伤残等级以中、重度多见。结论最佳评残时机为脑外伤一年后为宜,应结合老年人的心理、生理特点,提高交通安全防范意识。     

Agency Termination in the UK: What Explains the ‘Bonfire of the Quangos’?

In October 2010, the UK’s Coalition Government announced a radical reduction in the number of public bodies in the UK. This research tests the impact of three factors identified in the termination literature as affecting agency survival: political turnover, age and agency type. The research found that advisory Non-Departmental Public Bodies were five times more likely to have been identified for abolition or merger than other agency types. The research also found that agency age was a factor, but that political turnover was not significant.     

Public infrastructural development and economic performance in Africa: a new evidence from panel data analysis

Economic Change and Restructuring - This study examined the effects of both aggregate and disaggregated infrastructural development indices (such as transport, electricity, ICT, and water and...     

“I Realized that I couldn’t Act Normal”: a Qualitative Study of Sexual Assault Survivors’ Experiences of Workplace Disclosure

Journal of Family Violence - Sexual assault results in psychological, physical, and financial consequences for survivors. The distress caused by sexual assault can lead to work-related consequences...     

Biochemical criteria in diagnosis of some causes of death

The article presents biochemical indices of blood and tissues obtained at autopsy which can be used for diagnosis of strangulation asphyxia, poisoning with alcohol substitutes, hyperglycemic coma and hepatic insufficiency.     

Forensic medical assessment of subendocardial hemorrhage in acute blood loss

A retrospective analysis of forensic autopsy protocols for 240 victims who died of acute blood loss aged 17-55 years (186 male and 56 female corpses--76.8 and 23.2%, respectively) has shown that appearance of Minakov's spots (MS) depends on duration of the terminal period. Subendocardial hemorrhages occurred most frequently (61.5%) in the terminal period up to one hour. The terminal period for several minutes was associated with MS appearance in 27.5% cases, for several hours--in 6.6%, for 24 hours and more--in 4.4%. MS incidence rate did not correlate with the group of the study, blood loss volume, severity of alcohol intoxication.     

Defects in medical care delivery to patients with lung and breast cancer undergoing radiotherapy

Patients aged 55 and 63 years received extracorporeal 30 and 40 Gy gamma-therapy for lung cancer, respectively. Two and 60 days after irradiation, respectively, the patients developed arrosive pulmonary hemorrhage with lethal outcomes. Forensic medical examination in both cases has detected acute radiation pneumonitis with impairment of pulmonary artery endothelium that provoked hemorrhage. The literature review covers acute and chronic lesions of the lungs in radiotherapy of lung and breast tumors.